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

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

Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

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

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