Tim Ferriss Quotes

I once heard an exec say, "If you don't ask for it, we can't give it to you." We can't go through our lives just being grateful for everything.

I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.

If you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model.

Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.

I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.

Never be bullied into silence.

I think the most important thing is to, without belligerence, stand up for what want. Argue compellingly if someone tries to change your script.

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

Never take what's offered, always ask for more.

The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."

Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

You cannot let people come up in your face and stop you.

As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!

Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an easy target.

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.

I've always fought for what I believe in. I used to get made fun of for dancing, and I would argue back, or fight the kids, or do whatever I had to do to shut them up. I have that in me.