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

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

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

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

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.