Quotes from Gary Keller

To be precise, the word is priority—not priorities—and it originated in the 14th century from the Latin prior, meaning "first." If something mattered the most it was a "priority.

Every minute of every day, the question is never will we be doing something, but rather what that something is we'll be doing.

what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

The Focusing Question can direct you to your ONE Thing in the different areas of your life. Simply reframe the Focusing Question by inserting your area of focus. You can also include a time frame—such as "right now" or "this year"—to give your answer the appropriate level of immediacy, or "in five years" or "someday" to find a big-picture answer that points you at outcomes to aim for.

When one thing, the right thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things.

Michelangelo once said, "If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." His

Author Dave Crenshaw put it just right when he wrote, "The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships." Every

What turns an opportunity into a deal is that the property meets your Criteria and the seller is willing to meet your Terms.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." —George Halas

Sometimes what we do doesn't matter, but sometimes it does. And when it does, what we do defines our life more than anything else. In

Author Dave Crenshaw put it just right when he wrote, "The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.

Those who wrote down their goals were 39.5 percent more likely to accomplish them.

Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level.

Every day great salespeople generate leads, great programmers program, and great artists paint. Take any profession or any position and fill in the blank. Great success shows up when time is devoted every day to becoming great.

So how do you make The ONE Thing part of your daily routine? How do you make it strong enough to get extraordinary results at work and in the other areas of your life?

Time on a task, over time, eventually beats talent every time.

The first step is to understand the concept of the ONE Thing, then to believe that it can make a difference in your life. If you don't understand and believe, you won't take action.

The Focusing Question helps you identify your ONE Thing in any situation. It will clarify what you want in the big areas of your life and then drill down to what you must do to get them. It's really a simple process: You ask a great question, then you seek out a great answer. As simple as two steps, it's the ultimate Success Habit.

What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow. It will either serve as a platform for the next level of your success or as a box, trapping you where you are.

Start each day by asking, "What's the ONE Thing I can do today for [whatever you want] such that by doing it everything else will be easier or even unnecessary?" When you do this, your direction will become clear.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." — Thomas Henry Huxley

When you make asking the Focusing Question a habit, you fully engage its power to get the extraordinary results you want.

It's like compound interest with a turbocharger.