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.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

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

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.

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

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.