The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

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

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

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.

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.

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