Tim Ferriss Quotes

I know from experience that it is crucial that I use my strengths.

One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.

You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

Leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone. When their work lies within their natural gifting and strengths, leaders experience the greatest return in productivity and contentment. Life is too short to live in the comfort zone, where growing and accomplishing and achieving your potential takes a back seat. I suggest you refocus if the comfort zone is your leadership priority.

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

This is where it matters the most. This is where lives are made, in these moments when you can choose whether or not to say "I Can't" or "I Can." It is a choice that will either make or break you for life.

Why must I have the Piglet?' 'Because you are the best.' 'I do not understand.' 'Teach him.' 'And who teaches me?' ' As an officer, my lord, you will have many men under your command and not all will be gifted. You must learn to use each man to his best advantage.

Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?

Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.

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.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

It's always a thrilling experience to go into a place that offers you a lot of choice. You know it's like it reminds you of when you're a kid and you go to the amusement park and whether it be Disneyworld or Six Flags you know that thrilling moment when you first enter and you know you've got all these possibilities for the day and it's really a... it's a wonderful feeling.

It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

Whether it's a steroid conversation, or a player who gets into trouble, whatever it may be. Because of that, it makes you wonder what you can do if you had a little more space. That's the fun of the show for me - I have an hour worth of space.

Hey, size works against excellence.