Tim Ferriss Quotes

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Tim Ferriss

Profession : Author

Birth : July 20, 1977

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

Tim Ferriss

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

Tim Ferriss

Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.

Tim Ferriss

I work hard, but in spurts.

Tim Ferriss

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

Tim Ferriss

It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.

Tim Ferriss

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

Tim Ferriss

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

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Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.

Tim Ferriss

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

Tim Ferriss

Most of my readers think I'm obsessed with time management, but they haven't seen the other - much more legitimate, much more extreme - obsession. I've recorded almost every workout I've done since age 18. Since 2004, I've been tracking everything from complete lipid panels, insulin, and hemoglobin A1c, to IGF-1 and free testosterone.

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I am a human guinea pig and a professional dilettante.

Tim Ferriss

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

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I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

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I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.

Tim Ferriss

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

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.

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One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

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World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

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The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

Tim Ferriss