Top 120 Gary Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Super-successful people aren’t superhuman at all; they’ve just used selected discipline to develop a few significant habits. One at a time. Over time.”

— Gary Keller

102. “It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.”

— Gary Keller

103. “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

104. “The ability to control oneself to determine one’s actions is a pretty powerful idea. Base.”

— Gary Keller

105. “Here’s what I found out: We overthink, overplan, and overanalyze our careers, our businesses, and our lives; that long hours are neither virtuous nor healthy; and that we usually succeed in spite of most of what we do, not because of it.”

— Gary Keller

106. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” – William James.”

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

108. “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

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

— Gary Keller

110. “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

111. “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

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

115. “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

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

— Gary Keller

117. “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

118. “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

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

121. “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

122. “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

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

126. “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

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

— Gary Keller

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

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

134. “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

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

— Gary Keller

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

— 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