Tim Ferriss Quotes & Sayings

“I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.”

“I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.”

“I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.”

“The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.”

“Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.”

“The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.”

“I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.”

“The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.”

“Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.”

“I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.”