Part I - Quotes from book "Tribe of Mentors"

This is one of the biggest books I ever read and also the best. Here are few quotes that hit me from the book "Tribe of Mentors" - Tim Ferriss.

• Pain is never out of season if you go shopping for it.
• Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.
• The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes form having a question for everything.
• You don't success because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on the developing habits around them.
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
• The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We're like the platter River, a mile wide and an inch deep.
• Not dead, can't quit.
• He had his employees rate new candidates on a scale of 1-10. The only stipulation was they couldn't choose 7.
• Intelligence is like following a GPS route right into a body of water until you drown. Wisdom looks at the route but, when it takes a turn into the ocean, decides not to follow it, then finds a new, better way. Wisdom reigns supreme.
• You work hard because you're inspired to, not because you have to.
• You won't take a bullet for pleasure or power, but you will for meaning.
• You don't find the time to do something; you make the time to do things.
• Have a point of view, and share it meaningfully, thoughtfully, and with conviction.
• If you are doing something you love, you don't want work-life balance.
• Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself.
• If your curiosity ever leads you to a place where society eventually wants to go, you'll get paid extremely well.
• In the end, everyone gets the same judgement: death.
• Memento mori - Remember that you have to die.
• An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
• We all have two main characters in our heads
• A rational decision maker
• An instant gratification monkey
• We need a new diversity - not one based on biological characteristics and identity politics but a diversity of opinion and worldviews.
• It's not how well you play the game, it's deciding what game you want to play.
• Ego is about who's right. Truth is about what's right.
• Integrity is the only path where you will never get lost.
• Diversity in counsel, unity in command.
• One should use common words to say uncommon things.
• Did I do my best, given who I was and what I knew at that particular time ? and what can I learn from the outcome to make my best better next time ?
• If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
• Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.
• No one owes you anything
• Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.
• Persistence matters more than talent. The student with straight As is irrelevant if the student sitting next to him with Bs has more passion.
• It's really easy to say what you're not. It's hard to say what you are.
• Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
• Many a false step was made by standing still.
• Religion as a force for coexistence, reconciliation, and mutual respect or religion as a force for hatred, terror and violence.
• Disconnect failure from outcomes. Just because I lose doesn't mean I failed, and just because I won doesn't mean I succeeded.
• As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
• The first rule of technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
• What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt- it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
• If you want to change the world, you have to enroll others in your plans and vision.
• If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.
• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
• Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
• A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• Be the best, it's the only market that's not crowded.

Part II continued here...