Gary W. Keller Quotes

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain

Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.

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 you can honestly say, “This is where I’m meant to be right now, doing exactly what I’m doing,” then all the amazing possibilities for your life become possible.

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.

GOING SMALL If everyone has the same number of hours in a day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? How do they do more, achieve more, earn more, have more? If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others? The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach. They go small.

When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.

vital few and trivial many.

I’ve played the board game Risk with my son and witnessed an otherwise guileless, wonderful child morph into a little Napoleon plotting my demise. If everyone, even the sweetest child I know, is capable of this level of competitiveness, why don’t we all apply the same level of strategic thinking and competitiveness to our careers? And, by the way, why shouldn’t our work be just as entertaining? Almost all of the Millionaire Real Estate Agents we’ve worked with or interviewed for this book were, by nature, very competitive people.

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

They allow purpose to be the guiding force in determining the priority that drives their actions.

If today your company doesn’t know what its ONE Thing is, then the company’s ONE Thing is to find out.

When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of skills, they developed them over time. When you see someone who has done a lot, they accomplished it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of money, they earned it over time. The key is over time.

When you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them.

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