Richard Koch Quotes

I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.

Not only is happiness not money, it is not even like money.

Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

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.

We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader.

Only do the thing we are best at doing and enjoy most.

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Tzu

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.

The way to create something great is to create something simple.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.