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.

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

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

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

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!

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.