Gary Keller One Thing Quotes & Sayings

When one thing, the right thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things. And that's not all. — Gary Keller

When you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them. — Gary Keller

What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary? — Gary Keller

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. — Gary Keller

Your work life is divided into two distinct areas - what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it. — Gary W. Keller

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the only ones who do. — Gary Keller

GOING SMALL If everyone has the same number of hours in a 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. They go small. — Gary Keller

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. — Gary Keller

The ability to control oneself to determine one's actions is a pretty powerful idea. Base — Gary Keller

If today your company doesn't know what its ONE Thing is, then the company's ONE Thing is to find out. — Gary Keller

Multitasking is a lie — Gary Keller

Your next step is simple. You are the first domino. — Gary Keller

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. — Gary Keller

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t. Mitch: That's great, but what's the "one thing"? Curly: That's what you've got to figure out. — Gary Keller

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time. — Gary Keller

When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart. — Gary Keller

They allow purpose to be the guiding force in determining the priority that drives their actions. — Gary Keller

Author Dave Crenshaw put it just right when he wrote, "The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships." Every — Gary Keller

There are so many great reasons to devote all of your time and effort to taking and marketing listings. The Millionaire Real Estate Agent grasps the incredible advantages of making, obtaining, and marketing seller listings their primary lead-generation focus, and they do so almost exclusively. Over time, they will hire one or more buyer specialists to work the buyer side of the business and concentrate their energy on the high-return, high-leverage business of listings. — Gary Keller

priority. FIG. 23 In business, profit and productivity are also driven by priority and purpose. Personal productivity is the building block of all business profit. The two are inseparable. A business can't have unproductive people yet magically still have an immensely — Gary Keller

Success is sequential, not simultaneous — Gary W. Keller

When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn't actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business. — Gary Keller

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

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

Multitasking doesn't save time - it wastes time. — Gary Keller

The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships. — Gary W. Keller

In their studies, students who successfully acquired one positive habit reported less stress; less impulsive spending; better dietary habits; decreased alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine consumption; fewer hours watching TV; and even fewer dirty dishes. Sustain the discipline long enough on one habit, and not only does it become easier, but so do other things as well. It's why those with the right habits seem to do better than others. They're doing the most important thing regularly and, as a result, everything else is easier. — Gary Keller

Getting extraordinary results is all about creating a domino effect in your life. — Gary Keller

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. — Gary W. Keller

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. — Gary W. Keller

The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time. — Gary Keller

You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided. - General George S. Patton — Gary Keller

buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others - and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success. — Gary Keller

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

The ONE Thing you can do this week such that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary? — Gary Keller

In one study, elite violinists had separated themselves from all others by each accumulating more than 10,000 hours of practice by age 20. Thus the rule. Many elite performers complete their journey in about ten years, which, if you do the math, is an average of about three hours of deliberate practice a day, every day, 365 days a year. Now, if your ONE Thing relates to work and you put in 250 workdays a year (five days a week for 50 weeks), to keep pace on your mastery journey you'll need to average four hours a day. Sound familiar? It's not a random number. That's the amount of time you need to time block every day for your ONE Thing. More than anything else, expertise tracks with hours invested. Michelangelo once said, "If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." His point is obvious. Time on a task, over time, eventually beats talent every time. I'd say you can "book that," but actually you should "block it. — Gary Keller

No one is self-made — Gary Keller

Success builds on success, and as this happens, over and over, you move toward the highest success possible. — Gary Keller

When you say yes to something, it's imperative that you understand what you're saying no to. — Gary Keller

Knowing why you're doing something provides the inspiration and motivation to give the extra perspiration needed to persevere when things go south..
..Purpose provides the ultimate glue that can help you stick to the path you've set. When what you do matches your purpose, your life just feels in rhythm, and the path you beat with your feet seems to match the sound in your head and heart. Live with purpose and don't be surprised if you actually hum more and even whistle while you work. — Gary Keller

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

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

Lacking a clear formula for making decisions, we get reactive and fall back on familiar, comfortable ways to decide what to do. Pinballing through our day like a confused character in a B-horror movie, we end up running up the stairs instead of out the front door. The best decision gets traded for any decision. — Gary Keller

If you have to beg, then beg. If you have to barter, then barter. If you have to be creative, then be creative. Just don't be a victim of your circumstance. — Gary Keller

Happiness happens when you have a bigger purpose than having more fulfills, which is why we say happiness happens on the way to fulfillment. — Gary Keller

No one knows their ultimate ceiling for achievement, so worrying about it is a waste of time. — Gary Keller

Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls. — Gary W. Keller

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction. — Gary W. Keller

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. — Gary Keller

When we fear big, we either consciously or subconsciously work against it. — Gary Keller

When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another. — Gary Keller

If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time. — Gary W. Keller

Michelangelo once said, "If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." His — Gary Keller

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. — Gary Keller

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. — Gary Keller

Extraordinary success is sequential, not simultaneous. What starts out linear becomes geometric. You do the right thing and then you do the next right thing. Over time it adds up, and the geometric potential of success is unleashed. The domino effect applies to the big picture, like your work or your business, and it applies to the smallest moment in each day when you're trying to decide what to do next. — Gary Keller

In 2009, New York Times reporter Matt Richtel earned a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with a series of articles ("Driven to Distraction") on the dangers of driving while texting or using cell phones. He found that distracted driving is responsible for 16 percent of all traffic fatalities and nearly half a million injuries annually. 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. The — Gary Keller

Successful real estate investing begins with identifying value. How do investors identify value? That's easy. They look at real estate. They look at a lot of real estate. They look very carefully at a lot of real estate. I wish I could tell you there was a shortcut, but there's not, and I caution you against trying to create one. When you are starting to learn the value of real estate in an area, you will need to look at a lot of real estate. And as you carefully begin to get a sense of what people are asking and what people are willing to pay, you gain a sense of market value - what's worth what. This applies to both sales prices and rental rates. These are the two big variables in the value equation. — Gary Keller

When you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable. — Gary Keller

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. — Gary Keller

When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices - accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it's true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever. — Gary Keller

Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority. — Gary Keller

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? — Gary W. Keller

The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do. — Gary Keller