The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
There’s nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.
Take what’s useful, discard what is not.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
If you want it, measure it. If you can’t measure it, forget it.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
Kill time and you will kill your career.
Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.
Work faster, smarter and harder.
Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.
If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
Three Tips: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.
The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.