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…

- Richard Koch

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

- Richard Koch

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

- Richard Koch

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

- Richard Koch

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 …

- Richard Koch

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…

- Richard Koch

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.

- Richard Koch

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

- Richard Koch

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

- Richard Koch