The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

by Gary Keller

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

big success comes when we do a few things well,

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect

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

No one succeeds alone.

doing the most important thing is always the most important thing.

Multitasking is a lie.

Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions.

success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early,

It is trying to carry too many baskets

Indira Gandhi concluded that “the power to question is the basis of all human progress.”

The research and experience of others is the best place to start when looking for your answer.

Resting is as important as working.

be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon.

individuals with written goals were 39.5 percent more likely to succeed.

Individuals who wrote their goals and sent progress reports to friends were 76.7 percent more likely to achieve them.

When you say yes to something, it’s imperative that you understand what you’re saying no to

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” —Albert Einstein

High achievement and extraordinary results require big energy.

being with success-minded people creates what researchers call a “positive spiral of success”

if one of your close friends becomes obese, you’re 57 percent more likely to do the same.

at any moment in time there can be only ONE Thing,