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Timothy Ferriss Quotes

If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership of 1 million, for the purpose of selling anything that can be sold online, the blog is infinitely more powerful, because it’s only a click away.

– Timothy Ferriss

I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I’m involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.

– Timothy Ferriss

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.

– Timothy Ferriss

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You’ll want something new.

– Timothy Ferriss

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

– Timothy Ferriss

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it’s cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn’t create a lot of good in the world.

– Timothy Ferriss

I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn’t consume much time at all.

– Timothy Ferriss

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.

– Timothy Ferriss

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

– Timothy Ferriss

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

– Timothy Ferriss

As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.

– Timothy Ferriss

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.

– Timothy Ferriss

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you’d like to do less of.

– Timothy Ferriss

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

– Timothy Ferriss

I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly. David Blaine is an example of someone who’s better at self-promoting than me. He is much better than I am.

– Timothy Ferriss

I really feel like knife skills – not just in the kitchen, but in life – are really critical.

– Timothy Ferriss

It’s very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive – and they’re not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That’s it.

– Timothy Ferriss

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

– Timothy Ferriss

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

– Timothy Ferriss

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.

– Timothy Ferriss

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was ‘The 4-Hour Body,’ wealthy was ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ and then wise is ‘The 4-Hour Chef.’

– Timothy Ferriss

A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it’s the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there’s more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

– Timothy Ferriss

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

– Timothy Ferriss

There’s an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters, who have never gotten off the ephedrine-caffeine-aspirin stack. The process of getting off stimulants is really horrible.

– Timothy Ferriss

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I’m on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I’m off, I don’t want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That’s how you end up checking email all day Saturday.

– Timothy Ferriss

I’m not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

– Timothy Ferriss

Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.

– Timothy Ferriss

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

– Timothy Ferriss

You don’t have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you’ve artificially placed on your life. It’s easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you’re always in one place around the same people.

– Timothy Ferriss

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

– Timothy Ferriss

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