Top 120 Gary Keller Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Until my ONE Thing is done – everything else is a distraction.”

— Gary Keller

2. “People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” – F. M. Alexander.”

— Gary Keller

3. “There is no failure. You win or you learn. Either one is okay.”

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

5. “Purpose without priority is powerless.”

— Gary Keller

6. “No one succeeds alone. No one.”

— Gary Keller

7. “Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.” – John Carmack.”

— Gary Keller

8. “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” – Alan Lakein.”

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

10. “The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.”

— Gary Keller

11. “Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.”

— Gary Keller

12. “Getting extraordinary results is all about creating a domino effect in your life.”

— Gary Keller

13. “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

14. “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

15. “Be like a postage stamp–stick to one thing until you get there.”

— Gary Keller

16. “MY WAGE By J. B. Rittenhouse I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menials hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.”

— Gary Keller

17. “There can only be one most important thing. Many things may be important, but only one can be the most important.” – Ross Garber.”

— Gary Keller

18. “In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.”

— Gary Keller

19. “Mastery is a commitment to becoming your best, so to achieve extraordinary results you must embrace the extraordinary effort it represents.”

— Gary Keller

20. “Since there is always another level to learn, mastery actually means you’re a master of what you know and an apprentice of what you don’t. In other words, we become masters of what is behind us and apprentices for what is ahead. This is why mastery is a journey. Alex.”

— Gary Keller

21. “If it’s to be, it will be me.”

— Gary Keller

22. “Going small” is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It’s recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It’s a tighter way to connect what you do with what you want. It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.”

— Gary Keller

23. “Success builds on success, and as this happens, over and over, you move toward the highest success possible.”

— Gary Keller

24. “When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can’t cover.”

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

26. “When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of skills, they developed them over time. When you see someone who has done a lot, they accomplished it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of money, they earned it over time. The key is over time. Success.”

— Gary Keller

27. “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself not the life others expected of me.”

— Gary Keller

28. “We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.” – Robert Brault.”

— Gary Keller

29. “Adopt a growth mindset, and don’t be afraid of where it can take you. Extraordinary results aren’t built solely on extraordinary results. They’re built on failure too. In fact, it would be accurate to say that we fail our way to success. When we fail, we stop, ask what we need to do to succeed, learn from our mistakes, and grow. Don’t be afraid to fail. See it as part of your learning process and keep striving for your true potential.”

— Gary Keller

30. “Purpose, meaning, significance – these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. The act of living a full life by giving time to what matters is a balancing act.”

— Gary Keller

31. “To do two things at once is to do neither.” – Publilius Syrus.”

— Gary Keller

32. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.”

— Gary Keller

33. “Think a Million, Earn a Million, Net a Million, and Receive a Million.”

— Gary Keller

34. “If you don’t take care of your body, where will you live?” It.”

— Gary Keller

35. “If you can honestly say, “This is where I’m meant to be right now, doing exactly what I’m doing,” then all the amazing possibilities for your life become possible.”

— Gary Keller

36. “Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list – a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.”

— Gary Keller

37. “Equality is a lie. Understanding this is the basis of all great decisions.”

— Gary Keller

38. “Albert Einstein had Max Talmud, his first mentor. It was Max who introduced a ten-year-old Einstein to key texts in math, science, and philosophy. Max took one meal a week with the Einstein family for six years while guiding young Albert. No one is self-made.”

— Gary Keller

39. “Achievers operate differently. They have an eye for the essential. They pause just long enough to decide what matters and then allow what matters to drive their day. Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. The difference isn’t in intent, but in right of way. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.”

— Gary Keller

40. “Where I’d had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too.”

— Gary Keller

41. “Everyone has one person who either means the most to them or was the first to influence, train, or manage them. No one succeeds alone. No one.”

— Gary Keller

42. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers.”

— Gary Keller

43. “Your talent and abilities are limited resources. Your time is finite. If you don’t make your life about what you say yes to, then it will almost certainly become what you intended to say no to.”

— Gary Keller

44. “It’s important for you to accept this instead of fighting it. Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola warns us that “anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.” In other words, get used to it and get over it.”

— Gary Keller

45. “When it comes to willpower, timing is everything.”

— Gary Keller

46. “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

47. “What starts out linear becomes geometric. You.”

— Gary Keller

48. “Don’t fear failure. It’s as much a part of your journey to extraordinary results as success.”

— Gary Keller

49. “Multitasking is a lie. It’s a lie because nearly everyone accepts it as an effective thing to do. It’s become so mainstream that people actually think it’s something they should do, and do as often as possible. We not only hear talk about doing it, we even hear talk about getting better at it. More.”

— Gary Keller

50. “Success requires action, and action requires thought. But.”

— Gary Keller