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

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.