Gary W. Keller Quotes

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

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

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.

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.

Multitasking is a lie.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.

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

When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.

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?

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.

Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.

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.

Success is sequential, not simultaneous

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

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

A different result requires doing something different.

You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

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.

If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

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

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.

Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

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.