Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.