Top 120 Gary Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “No one knows their ultimate ceiling for achievement, so worrying about it is a waste of time.”

— Gary Keller

102. “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

103. “As you experience big, you become big.”

— Gary Keller

104. “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.”

— Gary Keller

105. “Lacking a clear formula for making decisions, we get reactive and fall back on familiar, comfortable ways to decide what to do. As.”

— Gary Keller

106. “When you act on your priority, you’ll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.”

— Gary Keller

107. “To-do lists inherently lack the intent of success. In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists – getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.”

— Gary Keller

108. “Lily Tomlin once said, “The road to success is always under construction.”

— Gary Keller

109. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the only ones who do.” – Apple Adv.”

— Gary Keller

110. “My mom lived to be ninety-five. Every morning I would ask her, “Are you going to have a good day?” She would always answer, “I choose to have a good day. I don’t have enough days left in my life to have a bad one.” She was right, she didn’t. And neither do I!”

— Gary Keller

111. “Knowing when to pursue the middle and when to pursue the extremes is in essence the true beginning of wisdom. Extraordinary.”

— Gary Keller

112. “Our past is but a former now, our future a potential one. To.”

— Gary Keller

113. “If you were trying to talk a passenger through landing a DC-10, you’d stop walking. Likewise, if you were walking across a gorge on a rope bridge, you’d likely stop talking.”

— Gary Keller

114. “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

115. “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

116. “When people don’t understand the power of the ONE Thing, they try to do too much – and because this never works over time, they end up making a horrific deal with themselves. They go for success by sacrificing their health. They stay up late, miss meals or eat poorly, and completely ignore exercise. Personal.”

— Gary Keller

117. “Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that’s meaningful.”

— Gary Keller

118. “A Great Answer is essentially a new answer. It.”

— Gary Keller

119. “So, 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.”

— Gary Keller

120. “When we connect big with bad, we trigger shrinking thinking.”

— Gary Keller

121. “While decisions tap our willpower, the food we eat is also a key player in our level of willpower.”

— Gary Keller

122. “When we fear big, we either consciously or subconsciously work against it.”

— Gary Keller

123. “Leaving some things undone is a necessary tradeoff for extraordinary results.”

— Gary Keller

124. “Achievement doesn’t require you to be a full-time disciplined person where your every action is trained and where control is the solution to every situation. Success is actually a short race – a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.”

— Gary Keller

125. “Voltaire once wrote, “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Sir.”

— Gary Keller

126. “So the more things you do, the less successful you are at any one of them.”

— Gary Keller

127. “The way to get the most out of your work and your life is to go as small as possible.”

— Gary Keller

128. “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

129. “When we know something that needs to be done but isn’t currently getting done, we often say, “I just need more discipline.” Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.”

— Gary Keller

130. “So, 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.”

— Gary Keller

131. “Tackling these tasks in the order we receive them is behaving as if the squeaky wheel immediately deserves the grease. But, as Australian prime minister Bob Hawke duly noted, “The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.”

— Gary Keller

132. “If today your company doesn’t know what its ONE Thing is, then the company’s ONE Thing is to find out.”

— Gary Keller

133. “Media multitaskers actually experience a thrill with switching – a burst of dopamine – that can be addictive. Without.”

— Gary Keller

134. “If you choose to track only two areas of your business, track your leads and your listings.”

— Gary Keller

135. “If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn’t an action you take but a habit you forge into your life.”

— Gary Keller

136. “If I do the right thing, the money will be there.”

— Gary Keller

137. “The truth I have come to know very clearly is that seeking mastery is a process and a path, not an event.”

— Gary Keller

138. “Napoleon Hill put it very well in the title of his famous book Think and Grow Rich.”

— Gary Keller