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

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.

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

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.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

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.

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