If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could m….

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result..

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

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….

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied..

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..

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns..

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 ….

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

Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader..

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!.

The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people..

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts..

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..

Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent ….

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not..

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we shoul….

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

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few importa….

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?.

Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to….