The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Timothy Ferriss

Dec 2009 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Ray Porter

About this audiobook

Forget the old deferred life plan that has you working hard through the best of years of your life only to retire at the end. There is no need to wait, and every reason not to.

Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint.

In this step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design, Tim Ferris explains how he went from working eighty hours per week for $40,000 per year to earning $40,000 per month in just four hours per week, allowing him to travel the world and fulfill his dreams—and how you can, too. With more than one hundred pages of new, cutting-edge content, this expanded edition offers new tools and tricks for living like a millionaire vagabond, even in unpredictable economic times.

Added features include templates for eliminating email and negotiating with bosses and clients, plus real case studies from readers who have doubled their income and reinvented themselves by following Tim’s revolutionary paradigm.

Ratings and reviews

I have been reading and re reading this book for years and will randomly listen to the audio book while I drive. Yesterday during a meditation, this book popped into my mind and I was inspired to repurchase the audio book (switched phones) and started listening in my ear buds while at work. Even though I have read this book perhaps 9 times in 14 years, different points applied to me differently and got me all excited about my career future again! Thank you Tim for being such a great inspiration!

While the first half is interesting and can bring some perspective into the meaningless lifestyles most 9-5 executives live today, the second is meant to fill the gaps and complete a profitable book. Tim Ferriss executes his profitability and "new rich" fast track methods in this book undoubtedly. Wouldn't read it again, skip the lists of URLs and countries to visit, you can fin it in Google

I've read this book and gained very VALUABLE information. A very small context of this book allowed me to give the contact information for 5 celebrities to the Chief Deputy Director of Communications for Obama. Tim Ferris went to Princeston University , gained essential info to share with us. Such as how to get any celebrity to sell or endorse your product. How to sell any product that you can imagine straight from the manufacturer by drop shipping. This book is pure GOLD.🙌

About the author

Timothy Ferriss received his BA degree from Princeton University in 2000. Nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” he runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide and is a regular lecturer at Princeton University, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change.

Ray Porter is a prolific voice actor that has recorded for over 100 audio books and dozens of television series, video games and video shorts. Among his wide variety of audiobook credits are The Silver Linings Playbook, The Black Hole War, and the Joe Ledger series. He claims, “With every book I’ve done, I have found that the author has a voice and if I can just do my best to stay out of the way of that voice, then the writer will convey what he’s trying to put across. So for me, it’s really more about enabling the text and what the author is trying to say.”