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

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

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

It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.

I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.

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.