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.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

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

Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.

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

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.