Top 300 Tim Ferriss Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” – Epictetus.”

— Tim Ferriss

152. “What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.” – Hal Boyle.”

— Tim Ferriss

153. “What would this look like if it were easy? “This” could be anything. That morning, it was answering a laundry list of big questions. What would this look like if it were easy? is such a lovely and deceptively leveraged question. It’s easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you’re not redlining, you’re not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process.”

— Tim Ferriss

154. “Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head.”

— Tim Ferriss

155. “There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.” Either way, nothing happens. – YVON CHOUINARD,7 founder of Patagonia.”

— Tim Ferriss

156. “Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous’ by Jim Dator. Also, ‘When it comes to the future, it’s far more important to be imaginative than to be right’ by Alvin Toffler. Both are famous futurists. These quotes remind me that world-changing ideas will seem absurd to most people, and that the most useful work I can be doing is to push the envelope of what is considered possible.”

— Tim Ferriss

157. “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.”

— Tim Ferriss

158. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I.”

— Tim Ferriss

159. “I overhear Bobby Flay say, “Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It’s that simple.” I.”

— Tim Ferriss

160. “With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Even more compelling: Somalia has the highest number of Pirates AND the lowest Carbon emissions of any country. Coincidence?”

— Tim Ferriss

161. “You don’t need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them.”

— Tim Ferriss

162. “To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.”

— Tim Ferriss

163. “I believe that success can be measured in the number of uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have.”

— Tim Ferriss

164. “Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know.”

— Tim Ferriss

165. “If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.” –Colonel David Hackworth.”

— Tim Ferriss

166. “The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.”

— Tim Ferriss

167. “Don’t save it all for the end. There is every reason not to.”

— Tim Ferriss

168. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron “If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.” – Colonel David Hackworth “Not my circus. Not my monkeys.” – Polish proverb.”

— Tim Ferriss

169. “Work wherever and whenever you want, but get your work done.”

— Tim Ferriss

170. “People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.”

— Tim Ferriss

171. “Losing makes you think in ways victories can’t. You begin asking questions instead of feeling like you have the answers. Questions open up the doors to so many possibilities.”

— Tim Ferriss

172. “Ben Franklin’s excellent advice: “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

— Tim Ferriss

173. “In other words, you can spend all day undermining other people, and even if you’re right, who cares? Anybody can talk about why something’s bad. Try doing something good.”

— Tim Ferriss

174. “It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter – nothing can justify that sacrifice.”

— Tim Ferriss

175. “Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits.”

— Tim Ferriss

176. “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.”

— Tim Ferriss

177. “Give vulnerability a shot. Give discomfort its due. Because I think he or she who is willing to be the most uncomfortable is not only the bravest, but rises the fastest.”

— Tim Ferriss

178. “More than 80% of the interviewees have some form of daily mindfulness or meditation practice.”

— Tim Ferriss

179. “The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” – Lin Yutang.”

— Tim Ferriss

180. “Strauss, Neil: “‘The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.’ – Norman Vincent Peale.”

— Tim Ferriss

181. “For a long time, I’ve known that the key to getting started down the path of being remarkable in anything is to simply act with the intention of being remarkable.”

— Tim Ferriss

182. “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. – BRUCE LEE.”

— Tim Ferriss

183. “You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It’s that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.”

— Tim Ferriss

184. “If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow. Ben.”

— Tim Ferriss

185. “Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. – VIDA D. SCUDDER, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets.”

— Tim Ferriss

186. “I’m not the strongest. I’m not the fastest. But I’m really good at suffering.”

— Tim Ferriss

187. “These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.” –Seneca Roman Stoic philosopher, famed playwright.”

— Tim Ferriss

188. “The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We’re like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. I always say, “If you want to become a billionaire, invent something that will allow people to indulge their own Resistance.” Somebody did invent it. It’s called the Internet. Social media. That wonderland where we can flit from one superficial, jerkoff distraction to another, always remaining on the surface, never.”

— Tim Ferriss

189. “The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?”

— Tim Ferriss

190. “People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. – JOSEPH CAMPBELL, The Power of Myth.”

— Tim Ferriss

191. “If you can’t define it or act upon it, forget it.”

— Tim Ferriss

192. “I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”

— Tim Ferriss

193. “Have you outgrown your systems or beliefs? Is it time that you upgraded? Or, on a personal level, as Jerry Colonna, executive coach to some of the biggest tech stars in Silicon Valley, would ask: “How are you complicit in creating the conditions you say you don’t want?”

— Tim Ferriss

194. “Oftentimes, in order to do the big things, you have to let the small bad things happen.”

— Tim Ferriss

195. “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” –Niels Bohr.”

— Tim Ferriss

196. “If the best in the world are stretching their asses off in order to get strong, why aren’t you?”

— Tim Ferriss

197. “It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.”

— Tim Ferriss

198. “Mastery is a journey, not a destination. True masters never believe they have attained mastery. There is always more to be learned and greater skill to be developed.”

— Tim Ferriss

199. “In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue.” – Thomas L. Friedman.”

— Tim Ferriss

200. “Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – ALBERT EINSTEIN.”

— Tim Ferriss