537 Quotes by Tim Ferriss

Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue – but really, it’s a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.

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

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.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot. – PAUL THEROUX, To the Ends of the Earth.

What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln.

Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.

It’s always the hard part that creates value.

It’s a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take. The most fulfilled and effective people I know – world-famous creatives, billionaires, thought leaders, and more – look at their life’s journey as perhaps 25 percent finding themselves and 75 percent creating themselves.