Tim Ferriss Quotes

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.

If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.

I have to approach my life in this way so I can do what I need to do, and do it very well.

When I'm inspired, I know I can get things done.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

If you don't execute on your plans, then you don't reach anywhere.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that you're trying to accomplish.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.