Gary W. Keller famous quotes

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

#Race #Discipline #Long

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.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Integrity #Glasses #Balance

Don't let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Cutting #Blow #Thinking

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Focus #Achievement #Results

What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
-- Gary W. Keller

#Unnecessary #Easier

Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Running #Wall #Thinking

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Phones #Drunk #Focus

Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Reality #Tasks #Balls

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Tasks #Cost #Realizing

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Opportunity #Screw Ups #Screws

Success is sequential, not simultaneous
-- Gary W. Keller

#Simultaneous

The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.
-- Gary W. Keller

#People #Giving #Attention

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Regret #Might #Way

The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Done #Path #Combination

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.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Needs #Littles #Feels

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.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Purpose #Enough #Wealthy

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Two #Focus

Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Giving #Important #Results

Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Simple #Next Steps #Firsts

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

#Needs #Sides #Side Effects

Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.
-- Gary W. Keller

#Hard Work #Thinking #Pads