Tim Ferriss Quotes

Posing good questions is harder than it might seem... It's hard because asking good questions requires you to see past the easy answers and to focus instead on the difficult, the tricky, the mysterious, the awkward, and sometimes the painful. ... Great leaders don't have all the answers, but they know how to ask the right questions - questions that force others and themselves to move past old and tired answers, questions that open up possibilities that, before the question, went unseen.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.

When you don't understand something, it's always OK to ask questions. That's really the mentality that I've had.

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

If you're interested in something, do some more research and don't be afraid to ask questions. At the very worst you're going to know more than you did at the start of the day.

Education is such an important tool for success, and probably the most important one.

Asking questions is the first way to begin change.

Insatiable curiosity is infectious to everyone around you. We live in an era today where we can get the answers for everything. In my generation, going to school meant learning the answers. Today, education should be more about knowing what the right questions are. The answers come for free.

The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.

Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

Making a mistake is also an achievement.

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.

You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.

One reads in order to ask questions

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind