Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Quotes from The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Work Week:Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.
Timothy Ferriss. 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-35313-9


Jean Cocteau
You have comfort. You don’t have luxury. And don’t tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have no fear of discomfort.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.

Paul Fussel
Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

William Gibson
The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Perception, Business, Stagnation, Friends Quotes

PERCEPTION
Mark Fisher and Marc Allen
Life is exactly as you picture it. Everything that happens to you is a product of your thoughts. So if you want to change your life, you must start by changing your thoughts.

BUSINESS
Francis McInerney and Sean White
Turning labor from a liability into an asset: this is what the information economy is all about.

STAGNATION
A.J. Marshall
Many of us spending half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half of our time wishing.

FRIENDS
Henry Louis Mencken
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Self, Business, Success, Women


SELF

Guy Finley
Any confidence you may have based on something outside yourself is also the basis of your self-doubt.

BUSINESS

Henry Ford
It is not the employer who pays wages – he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

SUCCESS

John Gerhart
Success is when reality exceeds expectations.

WOMEN

Edna Ferver
A woman can look both moral and exciting – if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle.