Tim Ferriss Quotes

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

Finding meaning in your work is your responsibility. Any job can be better when you actively work to find meaning in the work.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

Work is much more fun than fun.

I want to work and be happy.

When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

I do work that I feel I have something to contribute to.

Do you want an interesting job? Yes. Do you want a balanced life? Yes. And to make a contribution as well? Of course.

You get to a point in life where you have to enjoy what you do when you come in every day.

I couldn't be happier with my career.

I just want to do stuff that gives me work satisfaction.

Work satisfaction is important to me.

Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.