Tim Ferriss Quotes

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.

We need to execute fewer things better.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles floating in the air, waiting to be plastered in place. And what comes of it all, the design on the shirt at the end of the day, usually isn't much to see. I suspect that whoever he is, wakes up in the morning and wonders what he ever saw in it.

I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.

There is always a best way of doing everything.