Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss
Timothy "Tim" Ferrissis an American author, entrepreneur, angel investor, and public speaker. He has written a number of self-help books which have appeared on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists, starting with The 4-Hour Workweek...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 July 1977
CountryUnited States of America
distance goal long
I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.
loses
You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.
work important 4-hour-work-week
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
people marketing fans
I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.
self attention gains
I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.
time work few-words
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
needs impossible
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
majority needs misconception
The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
priorities 4-hour-work-week lack-of-time
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
entrepreneur make-things-happen happens
An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.
sorry screw-ups troublemaker
Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up
appreciation views two
I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.
email assistants top-100
The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don't even see because my assistant declines them.
work weakness
Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.