If you let pride stop you, you will hate life Tim Ferriss More Quotes by Tim Ferriss More Quotes From Tim Ferriss In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption. Tim Ferriss digital technology world I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. Tim Ferriss weekend book years The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done. Tim Ferriss done jobs world If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences. Tim Ferriss strong mean people What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer. Tim Ferriss answers want meaningful I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all. Tim Ferriss land hope work Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. Tim Ferriss excellent language sports If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources. Tim Ferriss hours use inspirational I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places. Tim Ferriss dark people thinking Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands. Tim Ferriss our-generation self thinking $1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows. Tim Ferriss lifestyle fantasy inspirational 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. Tim Ferriss steps trying people When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain. Tim Ferriss knees pain feet To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution. Tim Ferriss retail support marketing At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned. Tim Ferriss internet views thinking There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions. Tim Ferriss exit home needs The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit. Tim Ferriss new-year class years It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s. Tim Ferriss ninety-nine lonely people Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it. Tim Ferriss economics company whole I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought. Tim Ferriss wine white firsts