Top 300 Tim Ferriss Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Many a false step was made by standing still.”

— Tim Ferriss

52. “I’m prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.”

— Tim Ferriss

53. “People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.”

— Tim Ferriss

54. “Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you’re moving.”

— Tim Ferriss

55. “You think you’re fatigued, therefore you can’t exercise. In fact, you choose not to move, therefore you feel fatigued.”

— Tim Ferriss

56. “Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.”

— Tim Ferriss

57. “As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.”

— Tim Ferriss

58. “Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.”

— Tim Ferriss

59. “Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.”

— Tim Ferriss

60. “Don’t follow a model that doesn’t work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.”

— Tim Ferriss

61. “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.”

— Tim Ferriss

62. “Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.”

— Tim Ferriss

63. “Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.”

— Tim Ferriss

64. “Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the freedom multiplier.”

— Tim Ferriss

65. “Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn’t make it productive or worthwhile.”

— Tim Ferriss

66. “You don’t have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you’ve artificially placed on your life. It’s easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you’re always in one place around the same people.”

— Tim Ferriss

67. “People who avoid all criticism fail. It’s destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.”

— Tim Ferriss

68. “Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”

— Tim Ferriss

69. “By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.”

— Tim Ferriss

70. “$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.”

— Tim Ferriss

71. “The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.”

— Tim Ferriss

72. “The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.”

— Tim Ferriss

73. “Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.”

— Tim Ferriss

74. “There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.”

— Tim Ferriss

75. “If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.”

— Tim Ferriss

76. “Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It’s really that easy – and that’s what I do.”

— Tim Ferriss

77. “Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.”

— Tim Ferriss

78. “Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.”

— Tim Ferriss

79. “Nothing can match the wonderment that comes from staring up into the star-filled canopy above and realizing that you are a part of that creation.”

— Tim Ferriss

80. “For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.”

— Tim Ferriss

81. “Changing the world doesn’t require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi’s teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?”

— Tim Ferriss

82. “I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.”

— Tim Ferriss

83. “What would this look like if it were easy?”

— Tim Ferriss

84. “Stop wishing and start doing.”

— Tim Ferriss

85. “I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.”

— Tim Ferriss

86. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron.”

— Tim Ferriss

87. “Losers have goals. Winners have systems.”

— Tim Ferriss

88. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.”

— Tim Ferriss

89. “Kids don’t do what you say. They do what they see. How you live your life is their example.”

— Tim Ferriss

90. “No one owes you anything.”

— Tim Ferriss

91. “The future is already here – it’s just unevenly distributed.” – William Gibson.”

— Tim Ferriss

92. “If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.”

— Tim Ferriss

93. “What gets measured gets managed. – PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author.”

— Tim Ferriss

94. “The means of learning are abundant – it’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.”

— Tim Ferriss

95. “As Tony Robbins would say, “The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.”

— Tim Ferriss

96. “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – J. Krishnamurti.”

— Tim Ferriss

97. “Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know.”

— Tim Ferriss

98. “Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.”

— Tim Ferriss

99. “There is just less competition for bigger goals.”

— Tim Ferriss

100. “Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”

— Tim Ferriss