Timothy Ferriss Quotes

• People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

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• A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

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

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• If you let pride stop you, you will hate life.

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

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• Life is too short to be small.

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• Remember boredom is the enemy, not some abstract failure.

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• The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

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

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• Learn to be difficult when it counts.

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• Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.

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• When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

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• Focus on being productive instead of busy.

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• The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die.

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• Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

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• The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That’s a bittersweet ending.

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• 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.

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• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

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• Fear that makes us run from a mad dog is useful and necessary, whereas fear rooted in mistrust is unhelpful and needs to be overcome.

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• Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

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Timothy Ferriss (20)

Birth:	20th July, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker, Writer

About

Ferriss grew up in East Hampton, NY and graduated from St. Paul's School. He received a degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 2000. After graduation, Ferriss worked in sales at a data storage company. Ferriss was frustrated by inefficiencies at the company and his salary, and began building his own Internet business while still employed at the company.

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