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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss ISBN 9780786149254
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“So I go to the bookstore to find a book to help me get started. And I basically saw The 4-Hour Work Week, grabbed it, and it just sort of spoke to me.”— guest
“I think The 4-Hour Workweek does a good job of breaking down kind of work for work's sake and money for money's sake”— Tim Ferriss
“I first met Charles because he reached out to me after reading the 4-hour work week, my first book, and he had applied a lot of it to his business”— Tim Ferriss
“when we started chatting before I came on, I had read one of your books literally 10 or 15 years ago and it got me inspired to do kettlebells”— David Baszucki
“So it came out two years before the 4-hour work week. And I think I have a brief cameo in there probably because of the kickboxing stuff.”— Tim Ferriss
“under favorite books it said 4-hour work week. I'm like that's a great title. What is that? And I immediately order it on Amazon”— David Senra
“For my very first book, 4-hour work week, I used Google Adwords to test the top, let's just call it 10 title and subtitle contenders.”— Tim Ferriss
“I have been a 4-hour work week acolyte for probably six months. Like evangelical. Everyone needs to read this book.”— Charlie Houpert
“if you read the 4-hour work week or whatever. Like there are guidelines for people who have perhaps not ever tried to objectively value their time.”— Tim Ferriss
“which relate to later questions on 4-hour work week and what I still use from that book.”— Tim Ferriss
“which I think is a misunderstanding about what I do sometimes or what I often focus on even as early as the 4-hour work week”— Tim Ferriss
“The 4-hour work week was a huge book that allowed me to think about possibilities in my life in a new way.”— Steven West
“when I had my very first presentation at South by Southwest, 2007. It was the launch of the 4-hour work week”— Tim Ferriss
“that particular Southby is very nostalgic for me because I launched the 4-hour work week with an overflow presentation in 2007”— Tim Ferriss
“same thing's true with the 4-Hour Work Week same thing's true with permission marketing”— Seth Godin
“New York Times bestselling author of The 4our work week the 4-Hour Body the 4-Hour chef”— Tim Ferriss
“once the success of the 4our work week gave me a certain grace period within which I could try anything because Publishers would be like well”— Tim Ferriss
“the first time I encountered that was years ago when I saw somebody holding the 4 Hour Work week and I said oh wow great book”— Derek Sivers
“for instance, if you look at The 4-Hour Workweek, So I get rid of, not get rid of, but I automate my whole business”— Tim Ferriss
“I wish I had personally had Shopify in the early 2000s when I was running my own Ecommerce business I tell that story in the 4-Hour Work week”— Tim Ferriss
“I love the timing for when I read 4our work week because it was actually just after I had done this like complete delegation of everything”— Derek Sivers
“when I was running my own e-commerce business I tell that story in the 4 hour work week but the tools then were absolutely atrocious”— Tim Ferriss
“when I was writing the 4-Hour Work week as my first book I still to this day find writing very challenging”— Tim Ferriss
“all the 4our work week for the 4our body you know I've heard their fine books I've heard their those are very fine books and everyone should read them”— Ed Zschau
“one of the great ironies of writing a book called say essentialism or the 4-Hour Work week is that if those Concepts hit and the books do well”— Tim Ferriss
“in the early 2000s when I was running my own e-commerce business I tell that story in the 4-Hour Work week but the tools then were absolutely atrocious”— Tim Ferriss
“I gave your 4-Hour Workweek to my then-teenage children. I said, I want you to learn the way this man thinks.”— Martha Beck
“I think it's in 4-Hour Workweek, you have some good models of pushing people on not just being busy, but being productive.”— Claire Hughes Johnson
“I mean this is really sort of 4-Hour Work Week style let's get in and write the systems for how we manage workload”— Tim Ferriss
“after The 4-Hour Workweek, every pressure, including a lot of internal pressure, but every expectation and pressure was that I was going to do something in the same category”— Tim Ferriss
“Got a book, Million Dollar Weekend coming out to help people. Very similar, complementary to 4-Hour Workweek, and we're here today.”— Noah Kagan
“this is also on some level synonymous with what I described in The 4-Hour Workweek is the mini-retirement”— Tim Ferriss
“to be almost an addendum to The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Chef in terms of, say, healthy, wealthy, wise”— Tim Ferriss
“The 4-Hour Workweek came out in 2007, and there was a quote at the head of a chapter from Bill Cosby about breaking the rules”— Tim Ferriss
“prior to that I wish I had personally had Shopify in the early 2000s when I was running my own e-commerce business I tell that story in the 4-Hour Work week”— Tim Ferriss
“if you had to go back to before, when you wrote The 4-Hour Workweek, you would not change your mind”— Morgan Housel
“it came from reading your book almost exactly 10 years ago. And I posted an ad in Craigslist for an EA. I had nothing for her to do.”— Sam Corcos
“this is where I first read The 4-Hour Workweek, so this is actually was super impactful for me in being very efficient using 80/20 principles”— Justin Gary
“then the notes of that class become the basis for the four hour work week I did not want to write a book but a friend of mine who's an author suggested it”— Tim Ferriss
“that is what directly LED ultimately to the hockey stick for the 4our work week within Tech within specifically San Francisco”— Tim Ferriss
“the speaking session right before me in March of 2007 when I gave my very first presentation ever about the then forthcoming four-hour Work Week”— Tim Ferriss
“I really admire, Tim, your 4-Hour Workweek as an example. I'm working on the 400-hour work week”— David Eagleman
“Seth Godin: The 4-Hour Workweek? Tim Ferriss: Yeah, The 4-Hour Workweek was 2007. So let's call it 15 years ago.”— Seth Godin
“I would not have been able to write The 4-Hour Workweek had I not taken this advice. I was totally stuck on an entire section.”— Tim Ferriss
“your introduction to the world in four hour workweek, giving so many wonderful examples of how you don't have to accept the world's norms”— Tim Ferriss
“so much of how I ran my laboratory when I first became a professor was based on principles from The 4-Hour Workweek”— Andrew Huberman
“it'll sound funny to hear me say this perhaps, given that I do delegate a lot and I'm The 4-Hour Workweek guy”— Tim Ferriss
“4-Hour Workweek is a good example of this. Nobody really used that phrase before the book. It was a little bit weird”— James Clear
“it was around that time I discovered The 4-Hour Workweek. I think it had just come out or been out for a year or something”— Mark Manson
“I watched it several hundred times as background when I was writing The 4-Hour Workweek.”— Tim Ferriss
“this 4-Hour Workweek goes from — you got paid nothing for that book and then all of a sudden”— Jason Calacanis
“it came about because of the title of my first book, 4-Hour Workweek, and someone said, "Oh, you should talk to Aryeh"”— Tim Ferriss
“For the first book, The 4-Hour Workweek, that was bloggers, for instance. Most people were like, Blogs, what the hell is a blog?”— Tim Ferriss
“that was one of the two books I traveled with in the Years preceding the writing of the 4-Hour Work Week”— Tim Ferriss
“I'm interested in this idea that that book's reception in 2007 was actually a warning shot of sorts about what was happening in the world of work”— Cal Newport
“wrote the article my outsourced life which was featured in the four hour work week what a title for our work week”— Tim Ferriss
“really from the very beginning when you first published the four hour work week i feel like you've really been on a pathway”— Susan Cain
“it does make a reference to the four hour work week and not in terribly kind way ... the filling the void chapter”— Tim Ferriss
“when i was working on my first book four hour work week the blessing and curse that that title has always been”— Tim Ferriss
“my career at least in any credible sense didn't start with that and really it was the 4-Hour Workweek that put me on any map”— Tim Ferriss
“the 4-Hour Work week was actually really helpful uh at that time in helping me wrap my head around how I could straddle these Both Worlds”— Rich Roll
“the four-hour work week i mean i did give him a 20 earlier ... in all seriousness like that book was a huge influence as i said before which i'm super grateful for”— Blake Mycoskie
“The 4-Hour Workweek is my first book, and it encapsulates my experience over the last 4 or 5 years uh conducting experiments around the world”— Tim Ferriss
“it is over more than a decade since four hour work week came out 2007 i started the blog i want to say in 2005 or 2006”— Tim Ferriss
“four hour work week which by the way also had a huge impact on me my favorite story about that is i read four hour work week”— Jimmy Wales
“when i interviewed you and you talked about your book in the four-hour work week you know it was the same kind of thing”— B. Jeffrey Madoff
“just go to four hourworkweek.com that's fourhourworkweek.com all spelled out and just drop in your email”— Tim Ferriss
“when you think back to four hour work week and some of the analyses you did right you can tell you love the spreadsheet”— Ramit Sethi
“when i was working on my first book four hour work week the blessing and curse that that title has always been”— Tim Ferriss
“when i read your your book the four-hour work week ... they really helped me they're a lot of useful tools in there”— Andrew Huberman
“some form of dreamlining is outlined in the four hour workweek but i will very frequently take the 80 20 analysis”— Tim Ferriss
“you've been talking about this stuff forever you know with the four-hour work week this is not it's not unusual for your audience”— Balaji Srinivasan
“just go to four hourworkweek.com that's 4hourworkweek.com all spelled out and just drop in your email”— Tim Ferriss
“just go to 4hourworkweek.com that's 4hourworkweek.com all spelled out and just drop in your email and you will get the very next one”— Tim Ferriss
“he read a passage from the four hour work week in the course of that interview because he's read the book”— Tim Ferriss
“tools of titans was basically my update to four hour work week for our body and for our chef simultaneously”— Tim Ferriss
“So, for those who have read the 4-Hour Workweek, this is before, right before I went to Argentina and had the entire saga of tango unfold”— Tim Ferriss
“just go to four hourworkweek.com that's 4hourworkweek.com all spelled out and just drop in your email”— Tim Ferriss
“just go to four hourworkweek.com that's 4hourworkweek.com all spelled out and just drop in your email”— Tim Ferriss
“you had come out with 4-Hour Workweek, which was just this powerhouse of a book. And you were starting out with your blog as well.”— Leo Babauta
“in the early days of shopify i probably gave out 100 copies of the four hour work week”— Harley Finkelstein
“just go to four hourworkweek.com that's 4hourworkweek.com all spelled out and just drop in your email and you will get the very next one”— Tim Ferriss
“i was rereading the four hour work week and just kind of getting myself into your head about what you wrote that about 15 years ago”— Jim Collins
“just go to four hourworkweek.com that's 4hourworkweek.com all spelled out and just drop in your email”— Tim Ferriss
“my initial title for the four hour work week which one could very compellingly argue still sounds like an infomercial product”— Tim Ferriss
“just go to four hourworkweek.com that's 4hourworkweek.com all spelled out and just drop in your email”— Tim Ferriss
“your book, Four-Hour Workweek, I mean that was a riot. I mean you wrecked my life for a while, frankly.”— Maurice Ashley
“a lot of these self-help books and your books are at a higher grade than the majority of them”— David Yarrow
“within a matter of weeks I turned 40 my first book 4-hour workweek had its tenth anniversary”— Tim Ferriss
“ray actually narrated my first book the 4-hour workweek a lot of you love him already he did an incredible job”— Tim Ferriss
“terrible title on some level kind of like the 4-hour workweek”— Tim Ferriss
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