More Quotes by Tim Ferriss
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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.
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.
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.
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.
One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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.
