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1 " Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. "
― Timothy Ferriss , The 4-Hour Workweek
2 " Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. "
3 " An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. "
4 " Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. "
5 " Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. "
6 " Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre. "
7 " But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker. "
8 " People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. "
9 " Each delegated task must be both time-consuming and well-defined. If you’re running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn’t improve the order of the universe. "
10 " Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. "
11 " The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. "
12 " The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. "
13 " His friends, drunk to the point of speaking in tongues, were asleep. "
14 " I hadn’t reached my limit; I’d reached the limit of my business model at the time. It wasn’t the driver, it was the vehicle. "
15 " D: To reach the big pay-off, whether IPO, acquisition, retirement, or other pot of gold. NR: To think big but ensure payday comes every day: cash flow first, big payday second. "
16 " As William Gibson, who coined the term “cyberspace,” has said: “The future is already here—it is just unevenly distributed. "
17 " In my case, I use spam filters, autoresponders with FAQs, and automatic forwarding to outsourcers to limit my e-mail obligation to 10–20 e-mail responses per week. It takes me 30 minutes per week because I used systems—elimination and automation—to make it so. "
18 " People can’t believe that most of the ultrasuccessful companies in the world do not manufacture their own products, answer their own phones, ship their own products, or service their own customers. There are hundreds of companies that exist to pretend to work for someone else and handle these functions, providing rentable infrastructure to anyone who knows where to find them. "
19 " Si prestas un servicio, en este apartado aprenderás a transformar tus habilidades en una mercancía que se pueda enviar para escapar de las limitaciones que impone el modelo de ganancia por horas. "
20 " Everything popular is wrong. —OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest "