Tim Ferriss Quotes

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

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

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.

I love to keep busy. But I never forget it's the countdown that made it all possible.

I always find something to keep me busy.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed -- we are going somewhere. By focusing our efforts to a single point, we achieve the greatest results. The first rule of success, and the one that supercedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.

What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

I discovered that the best thing for me was to be very busy all the time. I can get a lot done, and I can do those tasks well.

First things first, second things never.

I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.