Richard Koch Quotes

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• Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things.…
• The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.
• Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs…
• There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being…
• Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.
• The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.
• It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A…
• There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our…
• It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.
• Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need…
• Those who seize the day become seriously rich.
• If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.
• It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
• Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.
• Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.
• The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more.…
• If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something…
• Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.
• 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.
• To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important…

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