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“Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.”
“Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without...”
“Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.”
“Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.”
“Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.”
“It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.”
“Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.”
“There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whethe...”
“Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems imposs...”
“Mr. Ferriss makes little pretense of practicing what he preaches, at least if you count self-promotion as work.”
