Top 300 Tim Ferriss Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

— Tim Ferriss

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2. “If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.”

— Tim Ferriss

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3. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”

— Tim Ferriss

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4. “The most important actions are never comfortable.”

— Tim Ferriss

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5. “It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.”

— Tim Ferriss

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6. “Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”

— Tim Ferriss

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7. “You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.”

— Tim Ferriss

8. “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.”

— Tim Ferriss

9. “One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.”

— Tim Ferriss

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10. “The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance.”

— Tim Ferriss

11. “An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.”

— Tim Ferriss

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12. “Reality is negotiable.”

— Tim Ferriss

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13. “Life is too short to be small.”

— Tim Ferriss

14. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.”

— Tim Ferriss

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15. “If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.”

— Tim Ferriss

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16. “A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”

— Tim Ferriss

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17. “Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.”

— Tim Ferriss

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18. “Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.”

— Tim Ferriss

19. “But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn’t making you stronger, they’re making you weaker.”

— Tim Ferriss

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20. “Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn’t do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.”

— Tim Ferriss

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21. “Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.”

— Tim Ferriss

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22. “Simplicity requires ruthlessness.”

— Tim Ferriss

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23. “Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.”

— Tim Ferriss

24. “Be bold and don’t worry about what people think. They don’t do it that often anyway.”

— Tim Ferriss

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25. “Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.”

— Tim Ferriss

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26. “Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.”

— Tim Ferriss

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27. “People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”

— Tim Ferriss

28. “Doing something unimportant well does not make it important,”

— Tim Ferriss

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29. “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.”

— Tim Ferriss

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30. “Perfection is an impossible destination.”

— Tim Ferriss

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31. “What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.”

— Tim Ferriss

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32. “Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.”

— Tim Ferriss

33. “Doing less is not being lazy. Don’t give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.”

— Tim Ferriss

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34. “Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you’re still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn’t stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.”

— Tim Ferriss

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35. “The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.”

— Tim Ferriss

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36. “Don’t suffer fools or you’ll become one.”

— Tim Ferriss

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37. “Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.”

— Tim Ferriss

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38. “The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: ‘What is the worst that could happen?’”

— Tim Ferriss

39. “Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.”

— Tim Ferriss

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40. “The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.”

— Tim Ferriss

41. “The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.”

— Tim Ferriss

42. “People don’t want to be millionaires – they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.”

— Tim Ferriss

43. “Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.”

— Tim Ferriss

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44. “The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.”

— Tim Ferriss

45. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

— Tim Ferriss

46. “Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.”

— Tim Ferriss

47. “I’m not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.”

— Tim Ferriss

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48. “There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.”

— Tim Ferriss

49. “The best entrepreneurs I’ve ever met are all good communicators. It’s perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.”

— Tim Ferriss

50. “Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.”

— Tim Ferriss