Quotes from Gary Keller

When people don't understand the power of the ONE Thing, they try to do too much—and because this never works over time, they end up making a horrific deal with themselves. They go for success by sacrificing their health. They stay up late, miss meals or eat poorly, and completely ignore exercise. Personal

There are so many great reasons to devote all of your time and effort to taking and marketing listings. The Millionaire Real Estate Agent grasps the incredible advantages of making, obtaining, and marketing seller listings their primary lead-generation focus, and they do so almost exclusively. Over time, they will hire one or more buyer specialists to work the buyer side of the business and concentrate their energy on the high-return, high-leverage business of listings.

Voltaire once wrote, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Sir Francis Bacon added, "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Indira Gandhi concluded that "the power to question is the basis of all human progress." Great questions are clearly the quickest path to great answers.

I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself not the life others expected of me.

In an attempt to make it all work, I began to bear down even harder. You might say that I started to clench my way to success. I really did. I thought that this might be the way you went through life—with your jaw clenched, your fist clenched, your stomach clenched, and your butt clenched.

If I do the right thing, the money will be there.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time—all of them.

Achievement doesn't require you to be a full-time disciplined person where your every action is trained and where control is the solution to every situation. Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

To-do lists inherently lack the intent of success. In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists—getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.

Our past is but a former now, our future a potential one. To

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down.

As a result, buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others—and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.

The problem is we tend to act on what we believe even when what we believe isn't anything we should. As

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When we fear big, we either consciously or subconsciously work against it.

Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here's the catch—the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.

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

But juggling isn't multitasking. Juggling is an illusion. To

Media multitaskers actually experience a thrill with switching—a burst of dopamine—that can be addictive. Without

Because I want my life to matter, I approach each area by doing what matters most in it. I view these as the cornerstones of my life and have found that when I'm doing what's most important in each area, my life feels like it's running on all cylinders.

When people talk about "reinventing" their career or their business, small boxes are often the root cause. 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.

A big, specific question leads to a big, specific answer, which is absolutely necessary for achieving a big goal.

When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover. Even if you're sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose.

Everyone has one person who either means the most to them or was the first to influence, train, or manage them. No one succeeds alone. No one.