Tim Ferriss Quotes

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

I take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead.

I'm in a profession where if you're planning more than six months ahead, you're doing it wrong!

I'm not a person that sets a long-term goal. My goals are on an everyday basis.

Do not make grand plans. Be flexible.

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there

I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.

Obviously this stuff takes a bit of planning, but I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.

I'm a day-to-day-type person.

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

I have to say, I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan, and I'm still not.

I have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.

I don't really plan ahead very far. I have never known what I'm doing more than a few pages ahead.