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.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

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

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.

There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being lazy - having plenty of time to think - may actually be a precondition for achieving a great deal.