Best Gary Keller Quotes About The One Thing

Our latest collection of Gary Keller quotes about getting more things done.

1. “Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.” – Gary Keller

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2. “Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.” – Gary Keller

3. “You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.” – Gary Keller

4. “The way to get the most out of your work and your life is to go as small as possible.” – Gary Keller

5. “Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.” – Gary Keller

6. “Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.” – Gary Keller

7. “What is the ONE thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” – Gary Keller

8. “In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.” – Gary Keller

9. “Multitasking doesn’t save time it wastes time.” – Gary Keller

10. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Gary Keller

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11. “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

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12. “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

13. “You’d be hard-pressed to find elite achievers who don’t have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.” – Gary Keller

14. “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

15. “When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic “Yes!” and vigorously say “No!” to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.” – Gary Keller

16. “To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.” – Gary Keller

17. “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

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

19. “A different result requires doing something different.” – Gary Keller

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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

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24. “Most people think buying is investing, but they’re wrong. Buying doesn’t make you an investor any more than buying groceries makes you a chef.” – Gary Keller

25. “The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.” – Gary Keller

26. “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

27. “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

28. “If you were trying to talk a passenger through landing a DC-10, you’d stop walking. Likewise, if you were walking across a gorge on a rope bridge, you’d likely stop talking.” – Gary Keller

29. “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

30. “If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.” – Gary Keller

31. “We each have passions and skills, but you’ll see extraordinarily successful people with one intense emotion or one learned ability that shines through, defining them or driving them more than anything else.” – Gary Keller

32. “When you think about success, shoot for the moon. The moon is reachable if you prioritize everything and put all of your energy into accomplishing the most important thing.” – Gary Keller

33. “If you have to beg, then beg. If you have to barter, then barter. If you have to be creative, then be creative. Just don’t be a victim of your circumstance.” – Gary Keller

34. “Super-successful people aren’t superhuman at all; they’ve just used selected discipline to develop a few significant habits. One at a time. Over time.” – Gary Keller

35. “The ability to control oneself to determine one’s actions is a pretty powerful idea.” – Gary Keller

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