Top 300 Tim Ferriss Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

152. “1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.”

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153. “Everything popular is wrong. – OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest.”

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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. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions.”

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

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156. “Not Dead, Can’t Quit.”

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

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

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

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160. “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.”

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

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162. “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.”

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163. “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.”

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164. “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.”

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165. “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.”

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166. “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.”

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

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168. “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.”

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169. “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.”

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170. “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Pierre-Marc-Gaston.”

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171. “Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You’ll avoid the tough decisions, and you’ll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted.” – Colin Powell.”

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172. “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?”

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

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174. “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.”

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175. “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?”

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176. “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 got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.”

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

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178. “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.”

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179. “The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.”

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

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

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182. “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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183. “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.”

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184. “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.”

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185. “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.”

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

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187. “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.”

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188. “Losers react, leaders anticipate.”

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

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190. “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.”

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

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192. “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.”

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193. “What we really need to do, to design, is look at the extremes. The weakest, or the person with arthritis, or the athlete, or the strongest, the fastest person, because if we understand what the extremes are, the middle will take care of itself.” In other words, the extremes inform the mean, but not vice versa.”

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194. “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.”

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

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196. “Did you eat half an Oreo cookie? No problem. If you’re a 220-pound male, you just need to climb 27 flights of stairs to burn it off.”

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197. “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.”

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198. “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.”

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

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200. “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