Gary W. Keller Quotes

If you choose to track only two areas of your business, track your leads and your listings.

The truth is that things don’t matter equally and success is found in doing what matters most.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

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

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.

Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.

The ONE Thing shows up time and again in the lives of the successful because it’s a fundamental truth.

More than anything else, expertise tracks with hours invested.

The pursuit of mastery bears gifts.

When people look back on their lives, it is the things they have not done that generate the greatest regret...People’s actions may be troublesome initially; it is their inactions that plague them most with long-term feelings of regret.

Make sure every day you do what matters most. When you know what matters most, everything makes sense. When you don’t know what matters most, anything makes sense.

It’s important to realize that on the journey to achieving big, you get bigger. Big requires growth, and by the time you arrive, you’re big too! What seemed an insurmountable mountain from a distance is just a small hill when you arrive — at least in proportion to the person you've become. Your thinking, your skills, your relationships, your sense of what is possible and what it takes all grow on the journey to big. As you experience big, you become big.

While decisions tap our willpower, the food we eat is also a key player in our level of willpower.

Voltaire once wrote, “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Sir

Success is actually a short race — a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

No one succeeds alone. No one.

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

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. The domino effect applies to the big picture, like your work or your business, and it applies to the smallest moment in each day when you’re trying to decide what to do next.

Here is what I do: I get up every day by six A.M. and meditate and pray — for spiritual energy. Then, I exercise and eat — for physical energy. Afterward, I hug, kiss, and laugh with my family — for emotional energy — and try to do it so that I get to spend time with all of them and still get to the office between eight A.M. and nine A.M. (Most people plan for emotional energy time only in the evenings or on weekends, when it can do little for their daily pursuit of big goals.) I then plan and calendar my day — for mental energy — and spend my first, most energized hours in the office working hard on lead generation and recruiting talent — for business energy. I never slack off before eleven A.M.

Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that’s meaningful.

The ability to control oneself to determine one’s actions is a pretty powerful idea.

Multitasking is a scam.