Tim Ferriss

“If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership of 1 million, for the purpose of selling anything that can be sold online, the blog is inf...”

“I definitely grew up with a lot of venom and distaste for city people.”

“I was a very happy kid. I didn't get new bikes very often. We ate a lot of chicken legs for dinner. But I never felt in want of anything. I wasn't cognizant until much later of the discrepan...”

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

“You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.”

“If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use...”

“Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.”

“I don't journal to 'be productive.' I don't do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren't intended for anyone but me. It's the most cost-effective ther...”

“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.”

“As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people foc...”

“In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.”

“I am a human guinea pig and a professional dilettante.”

“I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.”

“I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.”

“Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important m...”

“To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200...”

“World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.”

“I always thought I was going to end up teaching ninth grade, specifically, because I had a lot of really formative influences, I think, at that fork in the road, where a lot of crucial decis...”

“I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.”

“Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They...”