Richard Koch Quotes

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

  Richard Koch

  Important, Causes, Improvement

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• 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.

  Richard Koch

  Worry, Priorities, Quality

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.132, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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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. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

  Richard Koch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.127, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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

  Richard Koch

  Excellence, Strive, Performances

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.41, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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

  Richard Koch

  Work, Action, Should

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.26, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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

  Richard Koch

  Hard Work, Want, Return

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.153, Crown Business

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• 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 about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

  Richard Koch

  Differences, Realizing, Aspect

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.12, Crown Business

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• 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 time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

  Richard Koch

  Two, Principles, Use

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

  Richard Koch

  Circles, Ideas, Social

  Richard Koch, Greg Lockwood (2010). “Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links”, p.28, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.

  Richard Koch

  Determination, Giving, Important

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• The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow
  from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one
  true principle of highly effective people.

  Richard Koch

  People, Principles, Flow

  Richard Koch (2011). “Living the 80/20 Way, New Edition: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More”, p.188, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• 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. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

  Richard Koch

  Thinking, Principles, Needs

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.137, Crown Business

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

  Richard Koch

  Ambition, Intelligent, Progress

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• 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 into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

  Richard Koch

  Wisdom, Eggs, Watches

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

  Richard Koch

  Average, Effort, Celebrate

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.39, Crown Business

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

  Richard Koch

  Ease, Proud, Achieve

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.151, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.

  Richard Koch

  Ideas, Creation, Individual

  Richard Koch (2003). “The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best”, p.14, Crown Business

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• 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.

  Richard Koch

  Keys, Giving, Work Out

  "The 80/20 Individual: The Nine Essentials of 80/20 Success at Work". Book by Richard Koch, 2003.

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

  Richard Koch

  Progress, Individual

  "Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle". Interview with Avi Solomon, boingboing.net. May 12, 2011.

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

  Richard Koch

  Vulnerable, Diverse, Species

  Richard Koch (2013). “The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature: The Science of Success”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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

  Richard Koch

  Believe, Stories, Use

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.193, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• 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.

  Richard Koch

  Cutting, Care, Surprising

  "Interview: Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle". Interview with Avi Solomon, boingboing.net. MAy 12, 2011.

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• The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

  Richard Koch

  Work, Hell, Pursuit

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.93, Crown Business

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• 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 time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.

  Richard Koch

  Thinking, Effectiveness, Giants

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

  Richard Koch

  Success, Leader, Becoming

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