Tim Ferriss Quotes

I'm working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people launching new businesses. It's fun. It's what I've always liked to do and loved doing it in my years at NASCAR when we were growing NASCAR, building different lines of business and intellectual properties.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

I'm not looking to... I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic of steps orchestrated, you can never get to the critical steps that I outline in any one of dozens of books.

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Your success starts with how you are able to get clients in the door, get their business, and leave them satisfied. If you, personally, have to spend too much time doing that, you have simply bought yourself a job, not an enterprise. Take hints from success stories all around you!

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

New products, new markets, new investors, and new ways of doing things are the lifeblood of growth. And while each innovation carries potential risk, businesses that don't innovate will eventually diminish.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.

I had a very long and successful career as an entrepreneur, focused on the needs of small to midsize businesses.

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

I am not a politician. I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.