Erik Vos > Erik's Quotes

“Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient?”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.”
― Timothy Ferriss

“Simon received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to organizational decision making: It is impossible to have perfect and complete information at any given time to make a decision.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend,the more you have.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” —Pierre-Marc-Gaston”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“Simple works, complex fails.”
― Timothy Ferriss

“Happiness is wanting what you have.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

“Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“If you ran into an asshole in the morning you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Even more compelling: Somalia has the highest number of Pirates AND the lowest Carbon emissions of any country. Coincidence?”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

“The fishing is best where the fewest go,”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Adversity doesn’t build character; it reveals it.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Losers have goals. Winners have systems.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. —BRUCE LEE”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you’re not predestined to be fat.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

“When You Complain, Nobody Wants to Help You”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The New Rich ( NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We’d love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who’ve maximized 1 or 2 strengths.”
― Timothy Ferriss, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“It is far more common for people to allow ego to stand in the way of learning.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Summary

“I just want to be right—I don’t care if the right answer comes from me.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work