Quotes from Tim Ferriss

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.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

Learn to be difficult when it counts

People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

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.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

I think there's a difference between having a bestselling book - meaning through marketing, PR and buying that first wave of customers - and writing a bestselling book. The second implies that the product propels itself to the best seller list.

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

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.

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

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.