I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the ’90s.
The checklist is one of the most high-powered productivity tools ever discovered.
Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
The real achiever does one thing at a time.
Knowledge applied is productivity.
Never confuse activity with productivity.
Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it.
Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.
Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.