Tim Ferriss Quotes

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

Whether you're 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you're bad at, and focus on the things you're good at.

From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Focus on your strengths.

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

You have to know what your talent is, and you have to exploit it. And then, while you're exploiting that talent, you find ways and tools to elevate other sides of you that are weaker.

I know from experience that it is crucial that I use my strengths.

I'll work on my weaknesses and build on my strengths.

Every training session, I work hard to improve my weaknesses and build on my strengths.

You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.

Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong.

I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. There is no need for you to be a scrub. Respect yourself. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Do not dwell on unkind things others may say about you. Polish and refine whatever talents the Lord has given you. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life and look for its opportunities.

High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.