Gary W. Keller Quotes

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

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls — family, health, friends, integrity — are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Even if you’re sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose.

So the more things you do, the less successful you are at any one of them.

Be like a postage stamp–stick to one thing until you get there.

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.

We know that multitasking can even be fatal when lives are at stake. In fact, we fully expect pilots and surgeons to focus on their jobs to the exclusion of everything else. And we expect that anyone in their position who gets caught doing otherwise will always be taken severely to task. We accept no arguments and have no tolerance for anything but total concentration from these professionals. And yet, here the rest of us are — living another standard. Do we not value our own job or take it as seriously? Why would we ever tolerate multitasking when we’re doing our most important work? Just because our day job doesn’t involve bypass surgery shouldn’t make focus any less critical to our success or the success of others. Your work deserves no less respect. It may not seem so in the moment, but the connectivity of everything we do ultimately means that we each not only have a job to do, but a job that deserves to be done well.

Success requires action, and action requires thought.

To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you’ll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.

If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn’t an action you take but a habit you forge into your life.

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work — your ONE Thing — early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it’s at full strength on what matters most.

Not everything matters equally, and success isn’t a game won by whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis.

when you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable.

success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life.

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