More Quotes by Tim Ferriss
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.
For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.
If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.
An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
