If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
TIM FERRISSWhen you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.
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The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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The most important actions are never comfortable.
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I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it’s simply a poor use of resources.
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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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