Quotes from Gary Keller

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That's it. That

extraordinary success is sequential, not simultaneous. What

The brain makes up l/50th of our body mass but consumes a staggering 1/5th of the calories we burn for energy. If your brain were a car, in terms of gas mileage, it'd be a Hummer.

Equality is a lie.

Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness.

myths and mistruths get thrown around so often they eventually feel familiar and start to sound like the truth.

Lock in one habit so it becomes part of your life, and you can effectively ride the routine with less wear and tear on yourself. The hard stuff becomes habit, and habit makes the hard stuff easy.

find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

When Arthur Guinness set up his first brewery, he signed a 9,000-year lease. When J. K. Rowling conceived Harry Potter, she thought big and envisioned seven years at Hogwarts before she penned the first chapter of the first of seven books.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The

Where I'd had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too. And the light came on.

Don't fear big. Fear mediocrity. Fear waste. Fear the lack of living to your fullest. When

What's the ONE Thing I can do this week to discover or affirm my life's purpose... ? What's the ONE Thing I can do in 90 days to get in the physical shape I want... ? What's the ONE Thing I can do today to strengthen my spiritual faith... ? What's the ONE Thing I can do to find time to practice the guitar 20 minutes a day... ? Knock five strokes off my golf game in 90 days... ? Learn to paint in six months... ?

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.

Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that." —Erich Heller

extraordinary success is sequential, not simultaneous. What starts out linear becomes geometric. You do the right thing and then you do the next right thing. Over time it adds up, and the geometric potential of success is unleashed.

deductible, depreciable, and deferrable—are about reducing your taxable income. No investment does that better than real estate, which offers unprecedented tax advantages both while you own it and when you sell it. Millionaire

You can't really make a deal until you've found an opportunity, and you can't really know if it's an opportunity until you understand value.

The fact of the matter is that aiming discipline at the right habit gives you license to be less disciplined in other areas.

The problem with trying to do too much is that even if it works, adding more to your work and your life without cutting anything brings a lot of bad with it: missed deadlines, disappointing results, high stress, long hours, lost sleep, poor diet, no exercise, and missed moments with family and friends— all in the name of going after something that is easier to get than you might imagine.

Going small" is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It's recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It's a tighter way to connect what you do with what you want. It's realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

It's not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it's that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have. So we double and triple up in the hope of getting everything done.

Half-filled dreams and unfulfilled hopes: this was the number-one regret expressed by the dying.