Tim Ferriss Quotes

I love to work with people and do what I love.

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

I think that the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.

Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it doesn't even feel like work and it shouldn't. When you enjoy a job so much like I do, it's not work, it's play.

You feel stressed when you think that you are working. When I am doing movies, I don't feel that way at all. When I wake up in the morning and then get dressed up for the job, I feel good because this is what I want. I am the happiest that way and honestly, if at all I get a day or two off, I get restless.

It's not like I wake up and think, 'Now I'm going to go to work.' It just feels like a continuing exploration.

I need to love what I do, because I'm going to give 110 percent. I'm going to be working from 6 in the morning until 10 P.M., so I need to make sure I like it.

If you find something you really love, you will never work again.

I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything.

It shouldn't just be about money. It should be about loving what you do.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'

Work isn't really work for me.

I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.