537 Quotes by Tim Ferriss

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

Turning 40 didn't, as a number, scare me or throw me off at all.

I view myself as an experimentalist. I've tried everything in the book, and I have replicated results to one extent or another.

I view my job more almost as a field biologist or anthropologist, where I'm collecting practices. I'm collecting techniques.

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.

I'm very often described as a 'risk-taker' and 'extreme,' and there are a few examples of that, certainly in the physical experimentation.

I've had a very good stretch with startup investing, and I think it's very important to know when to hold your chips.

If you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you can do loving/kindness meditation, but that's not the world I live in.

I always thought I was going to end up teaching ninth grade, specifically, because I had a lot of really formative influences, I think, at that fork in the road, where a lot of crucial decisions are made by young folks.