Peggy Noonan Quotes

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

We must strike a balance between speed and thoroughness, between the need for time frames and the avoidance of mistakes which will later cost us dearly.

When I served as Prime Minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once and ended my administration in failure.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.

The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

Once I became number one, I started working even harder. I changed my technique, but injuries started creeping in - it was a big mistake, as I was doing something right to get to that spot in the first place.

My time is really important to me, and where I put it has to be of tremendous value.

The best policymakers know that in start-ups, as in politics, not everything works out exactly as planned.

One of the biggest mistakes that founders can make is doing something that maybe seems like a great idea, and seems like a good use of time, but actually isn't measurable, significant, incremental growth.

You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.