It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

The Lord has called me to obedience, though not always to success.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

Religions do not teach doubt.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

The words secret and sacred are siblings.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.