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

Richard Koch

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Richard Koch
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 28
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London
England
Richard John Koch
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Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.
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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.
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Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader.
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Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.
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It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
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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.
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