Tim Ferriss Important Quotations

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.

What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.

The most important actions are never comfortable.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

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

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.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.

There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.

Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important,

Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend."