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

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.

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.

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.

Some irony. The girl who couldn't face her own bullshit . . . suddenly forcing everyone else to.

To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.

Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.

We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

Don't worry about what you can't control.