The 20 Best Quotes from Entrepreneur & Self-Improvement Expert Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss changed my life with his book, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. In fact, I still remember being inn Las Vegas, with a girl, thinking, “Wow, my small business is still making just as much money as it would have if I was in town and I’m on vacation.” That book was absolutely brilliant, but just crediting him with that book sells him short.
Ferris has one of the most successful podcasts of all time. In fact, his show has been downloaded over 900 million times. He’s had five bestsellers and has sold more than three million books. Among his other accomplishments, Ferriss speaks five languages, is an expert in Tango and Chinese kickboxing, and has been an incredibly successful angel investor with an estimated net worth of over 50 million dollars. He’s not just successful, the way he thinks changes lives.
You? You’re about to be exposed to the way Tim Ferris thinks. Enjoy his 20 best quotes and hopefully, you’ll be able to find a few to apply and make your own life better.
20) “The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.”
19) “When you complain, nobody wants to help you.”
18) “For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.”
17) “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
16) “Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn’t make it productive or worthwhile.”
15) “Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.”
14) “For reaching influential people, I think that in-person is the least crowded and most effective way because they have to trust the messenger before they will endorse the message.”
13) “The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, elite athletes, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who’ve maximized one or two strengths. Humans are imperfect creatures. You don’t 'succeed' because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them...”
12) “To have an uncommon lifestyle you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.”
11) “The way that you become world-class is by asking good questions.”
10) “Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions.”
9) “'Success' need not be complicated. Just start with making 1,000 people extremely, extremely happy.”
8) “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.”
7) “Where can you trade money for time? Where can you spend money that creates more time tomorrow or next week? That is almost always a good investment.”
6) “The most important actions are never comfortable.”
5) “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.”
4) “The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.”
3) “Many a false step was made by standing still.”
2) “Above all, it’s the quality of your relationships that will determine the quality of your life.”
1) “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”