537 Quotes by Tim Ferriss

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.

Our point is, if you try to approach every problem with your moral compass, first and foremost, you’re going to make a lot of mistakes. You’re going to exclude a lot of possible good solutions. You’re going to assume you know a lot of things, when in fact you don’t, and you’re not going to be a good partner in reaching a solution with other people who don’t happen to see the world the way you do.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – ALBERT EINSTEIN.

80% of the consequences flow from 20% of the causes.

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.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.’ Think.

Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic.

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

What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?” or “What is a great company no one has started?” I will.