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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

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Gary W. Keller
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
Author
Writer
Austin
Texas
Gary Keller
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