Tim Ferriss

You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.

Tim 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.

Tim Ferriss

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.

Tim Ferriss

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

Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Tim Ferriss

Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.

Tim Ferriss

Changing the world doesn’t require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi’s teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?

Tim Ferriss

Did you eat half an Oreo cookie? No problem. If you’re a 220-pound male, you just need to climb 27 flights of stairs to burn it off.

Tim Ferriss

Each delegated task must be both time-consuming and well-defined. If you’re running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn’t improve the order of the universe.

Tim Ferriss

Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you’re not predestined to be fat.

Tim Ferriss