Top 35 Gary W. Keller Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Gary W. Keller

2. “Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.”

— Gary W. Keller

3. “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 W. Keller

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4. “Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.”

— Gary W. Keller

5. “Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.”

— Gary W. Keller

6. “Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.”

— Gary W. Keller

7. “To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.”

— Gary W. Keller

8. “Multitasking is a lie.”

— Gary W. Keller

9. “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 W. Keller

10. “Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.”

— Gary W. Keller

11. “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

12. “Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.”

— Gary W. Keller

13. “You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.”

— Gary W. Keller

14. “Success is sequential, not simultaneous.”

— Gary W. Keller

15. “A different result requires doing something different.”

— Gary W. Keller

16. “When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.”

— Gary W. Keller

17. “Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.”

— Gary W. Keller

18. “A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.”

— Gary W. Keller

19. “There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.”

— Gary W. Keller

20. “If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.”

— Gary W. Keller

21. “You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.”

— Gary W. Keller

22. “The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.”

— Gary W. Keller

23. “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 W. Keller

24. “Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.”

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25. “Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.”

— Gary W. Keller

26. “All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.”

— Gary W. Keller

27. “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 W. Keller

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.”

— Gary W. Keller

32. “Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.”

— Gary W. Keller

33. “Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.”

— Gary W. Keller

34. “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

35. “Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.”

— Gary W. Keller

36. “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

37. “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 W. Keller

38. “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.”

— Gary W. Keller