166
" So if you’re planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it’s at least worth asking whether that’s the story you’re telling yourself, or whether that’s the reality. "
― Timothy Ferriss , Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
178
" I have come to learn that part of the business strategy is to solve the simplest, easiest, and most valuable problem. And actually, in fact, part of doing strategy is to solve the easiest problem, so part of the reason why you work on software and bits is that atoms [physical products] are actually very difficult. "
― Timothy Ferriss , Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
180
" The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.” —Neil Gaiman, University of the Arts commencement speech "
― Timothy Ferriss , Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers