Tim Ferriss Quotes

The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.