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

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

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 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.

To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.

Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.