Ariel Sharon Quotes

All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.

I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

You don't have to solve every problem at once.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

I need to solve the problem. It's no different from how am I going to get my son out the door when he needs to go to school. It's a bigger version of that same type of problem.

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

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

Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless.

The question I ask myself like almost every day is: ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do.