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.

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

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

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

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.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

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