Tim Ferriss Quotes

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

Those who work much do not work hard.

It's not enough to be busy.

I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

For too long the federal government has measured quantity, not quality: What it puts in rather than what it gets out.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.

I feel many times we do all the hard work, but in the absence of smart work, we do not get the desired results.

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

The thing is to get the work done.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.