Tim Ferriss Quotes

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

If you succeed at most of your activities, your goals are set much too low.

It's better to set a big goal to try and then fail than to never set a goal in the first place.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?

I want to try the impossible to show that it can be done.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.

If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.