Tim Ferriss Quotes

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

Not to decide is to decide.

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit. It is but common prudence to see the way out before we venture in.

There is danger in this action. But there is greater danger in inaction.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.

The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.