Top 120 Gary Keller Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “No matter how many to-dos you start with, you can always narrow it to one. Keep going. You can actually take 20 percent of the 20 percent of the 20 percent and continue until you get to the single most important thing!”

— Gary Keller

102. “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

103. “Purpose is the straightest path to power and the ultimate source of personal strength – strength.”

— Gary Keller

104. “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

105. “No one knows their ultimate ceiling for achievement, so worrying about it is a waste of time.”

— Gary Keller

106. “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.”

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

109. “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

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

112. “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

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

— Gary Keller

114. “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

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

— Gary Keller

116. “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

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

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

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

— Gary Keller

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

— 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. “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. “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

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

— Gary Keller

132. “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

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 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