The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

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.

i was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found.

I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done.