Quotes about effectiveness

Practice like you've never won. Perform like you've never lost.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
- Tom Lehrer

Nothing is particularly hard if you  divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford

Never give up on yourself.

Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Surrond yourself with people who talk about vision and ideas.

You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.

Progress won't stop if you don't.

Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's life.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
- Stephen Covey

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
- Paul J. Meyer

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.
- Ayn Rand

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.
- Francine Jay

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Stephen Covey

Communicate in a respectful manner – don’t just tell your team members what you want, but explain to them why.
- Jeffrey Morales

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
- Warren Buffett

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
- Peter F. Drucker

The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.
- Russell L. Ackoff

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
- Brian Tracy

Hustle until you no longer have to introduce yourself.

I cut the drama out of my energy, focus on the inner me, never on an enemy.

The smarter you get the less you speak.