Quote

Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

Tim Ferriss

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tim Ferriss
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 20
Author
Businessperson
Investor
Podcaster
Technology Evangelist
Writer
East Hampton
New York
Tim Ferriss
Tasks
Doe
Important
Make
Time
Requiring
Task

More quotes by Tim Ferriss

Image
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
Tim Ferriss
Image
If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.
Tim Ferriss
Image
I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Tim Ferriss
Image
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.
Tim Ferriss
Image
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.
Tim Ferriss
Image
Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.
Tim Ferriss
Image
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
Tim Ferriss
Image
To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.
Tim Ferriss
Image
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.
Tim Ferriss
Image
The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.
Tim Ferriss
Image
To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
Tim Ferriss
Image
This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.
Tim Ferriss
Image
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.
Tim Ferriss
Image
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.
Tim Ferriss
Image
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
Tim Ferriss
Image
Learn to ask, If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
Tim Ferriss
Image
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.
Tim Ferriss
Image
I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
Tim Ferriss
Image
Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself I'll just get it done this weekend.
Tim Ferriss
Image
The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
Tim Ferriss