Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

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.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

Only do the thing we are best at doing and enjoy most.

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.