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Tim Ferriss Quotes

About Tim Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur, podcaster, and bestseller author. Tim has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.”

He is an early stage technology investor/advisor ( Include Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and much more startups) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek (2007), The 4-Hour Body (2010), The 4-Hour Chef (2012), Tools of Titans (2016), and Tribe of Mentors (2017).

There are lots of productivity and creativity tips on Timothy Ferriss books and podcasts; Here we selected some of his most powerful quotes on Productivity.

Tim Ferriss Quotes

Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner. Tim Ferriss

Doing less is not being lazy. Don’t give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity. Tim Ferriss

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time. Tim Ferriss

Focus on being productive instead of busy. Tim Ferriss Quote

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. Tim Ferriss

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? Tim Ferriss

Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences. Tim Ferriss

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest. Tim Ferriss

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly. Tim Ferriss

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it’s simply a poor use of resources. Tim Ferriss

Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Tim Ferriss

The most common approach is very seldom the most effective and most efficient. Tim Ferriss

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. Tim Ferriss

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Tim Ferriss Quote

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. Tim Ferriss

Tomorrow becomes never, no matter how small the task, take the first step now. Tim Ferriss

In a world of distraction and multitasking, the ability to single-task — to genuinely do one thing without getting distracted by push notifications, alerts, email, text messages, social media, whatever it might be — is a superpower. Tim Ferriss

You need to know what your unique strengths are and be willing to delegate. Tim Ferriss

Less Is Not Laziness. Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity. Tim Ferriss

How is it possible that all the people in the world need exactly 8 hours to accomplish their work? It isn’t. 9–5 is arbitrary. Tim Ferriss

There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 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). Tim Ferriss

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