Tim Ferriss on Wealth Quotes

"If you win the morning, you win the day."

"To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time."

"Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving."

"By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too."

"Retirement is worst-case-scenario insurance."

"Lack of time is actually lack of priorities."

"Learn to be uncomfortable. Get used to it. In my experience, it's the only way to grow."

"Relative wealth is more important than absolute wealth."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor."

"People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty."

"The best entrepreneurs I know aren't risk-takers. They are risk-mitigators."

"Doing something unimportant well does not make it important."

"To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular."

"Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it."

"The question you should be asking isn't, 'What do I want?' or 'What are my goals?' but 'What would excite me?'"

"If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think."

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

"Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you."

"Different is better when it is more effective or more fun."

"The biggest risk is not taking one."

"I’ll tell you what the real risk is. The real risk is at the end of your life, you look back and you realize you didn’t do the things you wanted to do."

"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase."

"Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action."

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

"Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it."

"Income is renewable. Time is not."

"Standardize before you optimize."

"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom."

"The goal is not to be a millionaire, it is to live like a millionaire."

"You are the average of the five people you associate with most."

"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To invest it with them is self-destructive."

"Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone succeed."