45 Quotes by Timothy Ferriss

It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.

Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell.

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

The options are limitless, but each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions.

Die Menschen träumen also eigentlich nicht davon, eine Million Euro auf dem Konto zu haben. Sie träumen vielmehr von einem völlig freien Leben, das dieses Geld ihnen ermöglichen soll. Die Frage ist also: Wie kann man frei und unabhängig sein, ohne eine Million zu haben?

Geld kann seinen praktischen Wert vervielfachen, abhängig davon, wie viele "Ws" Sie in Ihrem Leben selbst kontrollieren: was Sie tun, wann Sie es tun, wo Sie es tun und mit wem Sie es tun. Ich nenne das den Freiheitsmultiplikator.

Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.

There's an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters, who have never gotten off the ephedrine-caffeine-aspirin stack. The process of getting off stimulants is really horrible.

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.