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“love, be loved, and never stop learning—”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL, The Power of Myth”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“The commonsense rules of the “real world” are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Everything popular is wrong. —OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“There is just less competition for bigger goals.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“If you can’t define it or act upon it, forget it.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. —THICH NHAT HANH”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“80% of the results come from 20% of the effort and time.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs
result from 20% of the inputs.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law).”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for 'realistic' goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is living fully and just existing.”
― Gerber Michael E., The E-myth Revisited

“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.”
― Michael E. Gerber, The E-myth Revisited

“You should know now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, not by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it. Carlos Castaneda”
― Michael E. Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

“Most people today are not getting what they want. Not from their jobs, not from their families, not from their religion, not from their government, and, most important, not from themselves. Something is missing in most of our lives. Part of what’s missing is purpose. Values. Worthwhile standards against which our lives can be measured. Part of what’s missing is a Game Worth Playing.”
― Michael E. Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

“Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity