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

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.

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.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

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.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

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.