Tim Ferriss Quotes

Quitting is leading too.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

It's always too early to quit.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

You just go out there and do the best you can. If it hits, it hits. And if it doesn't, you go on to the next thing.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

There are no failures, only quitters.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

If you are losing at a game, change the game.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.