Gary Keller quotes

“A different result requires doing something different.”

“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.”

“Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.”

“Allow purpose to be the guiding force in determining the priority that drives your actions.”

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

“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.”

“Even if you’re sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose.”

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

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

“If everyone has the same number of hours in the day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? How do they do more, achieve more, earn more, have more? If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others?

The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach. It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.”

“If you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your One Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it’s at full strength on what matters most.”

“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls and you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that 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.”

“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.”

“It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.”

“Make sure every day you do what matters most. When you know what matters most, everything makes sense. When you don’t know what matters most, anything makes sense.”

“Money has its own rules and disciplines,
and it doesn’t care who you are. If you break its rules, it’ll break you. In other words, when you break money’s rules, you’re broke. Don’t be financially illiterate. Learn the rules and enjoy the rewards. It’s your life. Money doesn’t care about it one way or another, but you do.”

“Money is just money. It will expose and amplify you, but it won’t change you. It’s simply a medium of exchange that gives you freedom and allows you to buy what you need.”

“Money merely reflects what you value and does what it’s told. Money sits there until it’s called. So put money in its proper place. When you know why you want money and are realistic about what it will do for you, you are in a great place to go call it.”

“Multitasking is a lie.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”

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

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

“The key to happiness is not more money. Happiness is happiness. Our life purpose is to have the best life possible in the time allotted us. It’s not the amount, it’s the value, and you can’t buy that. Money doesn’t buy value as it pertains to the best life possible.”

“The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.”

“The world doesn’t care if you’re a millionaire, and certainly money doesn’t care. You’re the one who cares, and that is as it should be. You should care because it’s your life. The key to having money is wanting it and knowing why you want it. The key to being a millionaire is wanting a lot of money and doing what it takes to get it. The key to being happy with a lot of money is understanding what money can and can’t do for you.”

“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.”

“We all have priorities in life: the people who matter the most and the things we’d most like to do and have. Money, whether we have it or not, isn’t intended to define or redefine our priorities. It is intended to help finance them.”

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

“When people look back on their lives, it is the things they have not done that generate the greatest regret... People’s actions may be troublesome initially; it is their inactions that plague them most with long-term feelings of regret.”

“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.”

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

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

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