Quotes on 4 Hour Work Week

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

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.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

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

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.