To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Most automakers develop multiple options for a single project. Then they present those options to a committee of executives who decide which one to go with. That takes a lot of time.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

The trouble with life in America today is not that we work too much but that our free time is too much engaged in play and amusement so that too little of it is left for the kind of leisure activities that really are the most profitable part of human life.

Spending too much time making "calls" instead of sales. A call is not an interview. An interview is not a sale.

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.