To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader.

There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.