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
jobs mean entrepreneur
A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.
effectiveness goal important
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
real thinking goal
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
years months week
Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
stars realizing creation
Nothing can match the wonderment that comes from staring up into the star-filled canopy above and realizing that you are a part of that creation.
years cases bother
Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.
damage-is-done schedules plans
Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.
home school eye
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.
eye quality want
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
thinking views internet
At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.
mountain location telescopes
After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.
writing two together
I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m.
perfection impossible destination
Perfection is an impossible destination
important doe wells
Doing something unimportant well does not make it important,