Gary Keller Quotes About Getting More Things Done
1. Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus. – Gary Keller
2. Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls. – Gary Keller
3. Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time. – Gary Keller
4. Success is actually a short race – a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over. – Gary Keller
5. When we know something that needs to be done but isn’t currently getting done, we often say, “I just need more discipline.” Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit. – Gary Keller
6. The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. – Gary Keller
7. Your work life is divided into two distinct areas – what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it. – Gary Keller
8. Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it. – Gary Keller
9. What is the ONE thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary? – Gary Keller
10. Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction. – Gary Keller
11. If everyone has the same amount of time and yet some earn more than others, can we say then say that it’s how we use our time that determines the money we make? – Gary Keller
12. If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time. – Gary Keller
13. There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life. – Gary Keller
14. 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. – Gary Keller
15. You’d be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life. – Gary Keller
16. In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no – a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before. – Gary Keller
17. When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic “Yes!” and vigorously say “No!” to the rest, extraordinary results become possible. – Gary Keller
18. To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire. – Gary Keller
19. “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 Keller
20. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Gary Keller
21. “a different result requires doing something different.” – Gary Keller
“22. 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 Keller
23. “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 Keller
24. 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 Keller
25. “You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.” – Gary Keller
