Top 82 Gary Keller Quotes
#1. buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others - and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.
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#3. When one thing, the right thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things. And that's not all.
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#4. Juggling is an illusion ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession ... It is actually task switching.
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#5. Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
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#6. be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon.
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#7. The ability to control oneself to determine one's actions is a pretty powerful idea. Base
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#8. You can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Happiness happens when you have a bigger purpose than having more fulfills, which is why we say happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.
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#11. Sometimes what we do doesn't matter, but sometimes it does. And when it does, what we do defines our life more than anything else. In
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#12. When we fear big, we either consciously or subconsciously work against it.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Success builds on success, and as this happens, over and over, you move toward the highest success possible.
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#15. You can't really make a deal until you've found an opportunity, and you can't really know if it's an opportunity until you understand value.
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#16. When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn't actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.
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#17. Success is actually a short race - a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. They allow purpose to be the guiding force in determining the priority that drives their actions.
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#21. To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues,
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#22. If today your company doesn't know what its ONE Thing is, then the company's ONE Thing is to find out.
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#23. The ONE Thing you can do this week such that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary?
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#24. Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that's meaningful.
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#25. When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover.
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#26. Leaving some things undone is a necessary tradeoff for extraordinary results.
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#27. To do two things at once is to do neither." - Publilius Syrus
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#28. The way to get the most out of your work and your life is to go as small as possible.
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#29. they favor new information over old, even if the older information is more valuable.
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#30. When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.
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#31. No one knows their ultimate ceiling for achievement, so worrying about it is a waste of time.
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#32. Even if you're sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose.
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#33. The reason we shouldn't pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes.
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#34. Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
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#35. a different result requires doing something different.
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#36. Albert Einstein had Max Talmud, his first mentor. It was Max who introduced a ten-year-old Einstein to key texts in math, science, and philosophy. Max took one meal a week with the Einstein family for six years while guiding young Albert. No one is self-made.
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#37. It's like compound interest with a turbocharger.
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#38. priority. FIG. 23 In business, profit and productivity are also driven by priority and purpose. Personal productivity is the building block of all business profit. The two are inseparable. A business can't have unproductive people yet magically still have an immensely
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#39. When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices - accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it's true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Big is bad is a lie. It's quite possibly the worst lie of all, for if you fear big success, you'll either avoid it or sabotage your efforts to achieve it.
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#42. What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
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#43. In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.
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#45. Your talent and abilities are limited resources. Your time is finite. If you don't make your life about what you say yes to, then it will almost certainly become what you intended to say no to.
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#47. Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
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#48. Michelangelo once said, "If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." His
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#49. You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided. - General George S. Patton
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#54. Getting extraordinary results is all about creating a domino effect in your life.
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#55. Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.
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#56. Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.
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#57. Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.
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#58. When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart.
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#59. the key to success isn't in all the things we do but in the handful of things we do well.
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#60. success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life.
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#61. What turns an opportunity into a deal is that the property meets your Criteria and the seller is willing to meet your Terms.
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#62. Multitasking doesn't save time - it wastes time.
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#63. 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.
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#64. Only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.
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#65. Voltaire once wrote, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Sir Francis Bacon added, "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Indira Gandhi concluded that "the power to question is the basis of all human progress." Great questions are clearly the quickest path to great answers.
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#66. Don't fear big. Fear mediocrity. Fear waste. Fear the lack of living to your fullest
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#67. One of the most empowering moments of my life came when I realized that life is a question and how we live it is our answer.
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#68. When you say yes to something, it's imperative that you understand what you're saying no to.
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#69. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.
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#70. 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.
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#71. People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the only ones who do.
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#72. The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.
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#73. 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.
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#74. When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.
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#75. 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.
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#76. Purpose, meaning, significance - these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. The act of living a full life by giving time to what matters is a balancing act.
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#77. All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time - all of them.
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#78. 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.
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#79. You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
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#80. The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.
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#81. deductible, depreciable, and deferrable - are about reducing your taxable income. No investment does that better than real estate, which offers unprecedented tax advantages both while you own it and when you sell it. Millionaire
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#82. When you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them.
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