Author, entrepreneur, blogger, podcaster, public
speaker, charity advocate, health guru and
multiple business award winner – Timothy Ferris
has achieved pretty much everything one could
imagine. Known for pushing the limits, Tim is
one of the only people in the world whose other
accomplishments completely dwarf the fact that
he’s a Princeton alumnus.
Below are 40 of his most famous
quotes throughout his record career
in life hacking :
2 . “People will choose unhappiness over
uncertainty.”
3 . “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.”
4 . “A person’s success in life can usually be
measured by the number of uncomfortable
conversations he or she is willing to have.”
5 . “The question you should be asking isn’t,
“What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but
“What would excite me?”
6 . “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of
the world is, too. Do not overestimate the
competition and underestimate yourself. You are
better than you think.”
7 . “To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense,
but you do need to control your time and realize
that most things just aren’t as serious as you
make them out to be.”
8 . “The opposite of love is indifference, and the
opposite of happiness is boredom.”
9 . “Most people are fast to stop you before you
get started but hesitate to get in the way if
you’re moving.”
10 . “Poisonous people do not deserve your time.
To think otherwise is masochistic.”
12 . “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.”
13 . “The fishing is best where the fewest go and
the collective insecurity of the world makes it
easy for people to hit home runs while everyone
is aiming for base hits.”
14 . “Different is better when it is more effective
or more fun.”
15 . “Role models who push us to exceed our
limits, physical training that removes our spare
tires, and risks that expand our sphere of
comfortable action are all examples of eustress
—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for
growth.”
16 . “Life is too short to be small.”
17 . “Many a false step was made by standing
still.”
18 . “Remember—boredom is the enemy, not
some abstract “failure.”
19 . “The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad,
but to pursue and experience the best in the
world.”
20 . “Excitement is the more practical synonym
for happiness, and it is precisely what you should
strive to chase. It is the cure-all.”
22 . “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.”
23 . “The bottom line is that you only have the
rights you fight for.”
24 . “$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy.
The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom
it supposedly allows.”
25 . “By working only when you are most
effective, life is both more productive and more
enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having
your cake and eating it, too.”
26 . “Alternating periods of activity and rest is
necessary to survive, let alone thrive.”
27 . “The golden years become lower-middle-
class life revisited. That’s a bittersweet ending.”
28 . “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.”
29 . “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 and energy-
consuming.”
30 . “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.”
32 . “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.”
33 . “Being able to quit things that don’t work is
integral to being a winner.”
34 . “I will take as a given that, for most people,
somewhere between six and seven billion of
them, the perfect job is the one that takes the
least time.”
35 . “People are fond of using the its not what
you know, its who you know adage as an excuse
for inaction, as if all successful people are born
with powerful friends.”
36 . “If you let pride stop you, you will hate life.”
37 . “Never automate something that can be
eliminated, and never delegate something that
can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you
waste someone else’s time instead of your own,
which now wastes your hard-earned cash.”
38 . “It is possible to become world-class, enter
the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost
any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12
weeks.”
39 . “Pareto’s Law can be summarized as
follows: 80% of the outputs
result from 20% of the inputs.”
40 . “Age doesn’t matter: an open mind does.”
I hope you were inspired by these
quotes! Which Tim Ferriss quote has
the most impact in your life?
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