Top Highlights

• “It doesn’t matter how smart you are or aren’t, you need to make up in hard work what you lack in experience, skill, intelligence, or innate ability.
• The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices.
• In reality, his or her profound success was the result of small, smart choices, completed consistently over time.
• The secret to success was then, and is now, hard work, discipline, and good habits.
• It’s the little things that inevitably and predictably derail your success. Whether they’re bone-headed maneuvers, no-biggie behaviors, or are disguised as positive choices (those are especially insidious), these seemingly insignificant decisions can completely throw you off course because you’re not mindful of them.