I compiled a list of my favorite quotes from The 4 hour workweek (my amazon link) by Timothy Ferriss. This is the book that has changed my mindset about how to approach my personal and business life. The 4 hour workweek is a book about lifestyle design and entrepreneurship. This book is both inspirational and offer some great tips! I have read the book at least 4 times already and its always as if I am reading it for the first time! I went through it this time around and wrote down all the quotes that impacted me the most. These quotes are not from him but are from several great figures throughout our time that were cited in his book. I hope some or all impact you in some way like it has for me. Please, leave a comment and tell me your favorite

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. - Paula Poundstone

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day. - Robert Frost, American poet and winner of four Pulitzer prizes

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel prize winner

I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. - Herbert Bayard Swope, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?” - Seneca

There is no difference between a pessimist who says, “oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says, “don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.” Either way, nothing happens. - Yvon Choinard, founder of Patagonia

“Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?” ”That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the cat. ”I don’t much care where…” Said Alice. ”Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the cat. - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. - Mark Twain

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. - Bruce Lee

I saw a bank that said “24 hour banking,” but I don’t have that much time. - Steven Wright, comedian

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel that anymore. - Oprah Winfrey

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. - Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. - Dave Barry, Pulitzer prize-winning American humorist

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. - Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau, naturalist

The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet. - William Gibson, author of Neuromancer; termed “cyberspace” in 1984

Creation is a better means of self-expression and possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. - Vida D. Scudder, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I not only use all the dreams that I have, but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson

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. - Warren G. Bennis, University of Southern California professor of business administration; adviser to Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer . - Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Companies go out of business when they make the wrong decisions or, just as important, make too many decisions. The latter creates complexity.- Mike Maples, cofounder of Motive Communications (IPO to $260 million market cap), founding executive of Tivoli (sold to IBM for $750 million), and investor in companies such as Digg.com

On this path, it is only the first step that counts. - St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, Catholic saint, “Cure d’Ars”

I was asked if I was going to fire an employee w forho made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. Now, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. - Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. - Colin Wilson, British author of the Outsider; New Existentialist

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. - Chinese proverb

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.- Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, worlds largest furniture brand

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt, CBS news reporter

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, then research.- Rolf Potts, Vagabonding

People say that what we are seeking is in for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. - Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as the novelist who is over certain of his plot. - Paul Thoreau, To the Ends of the Earth

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. - Bill Watterson, creator of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. - Viktor E. Frankl, Holocaust survivor; author of Man’s Search for Meaning

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. - Oscar Wilde

There is nothing that the busy man is less busy with then living; there is nothing harder to learn. - Seneca

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many people still speak in foreign languages. - Dave Barry

Ho imparato che niente e impossibile, e anche che quasi niente e facile…(I’ve learned that nothing is impossible, and that almost nothing is easy…) - Articolo 31 (Italian rap group), “Un Urlo”

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and ask myself: “if today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something… Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. - Steve Jobs, college dropout and CEO of Apple Computer, Stanford University commencement, 2005