Ted Engstrom Quotes

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.

We need to execute fewer things better.

If you think about stripping away 80 percent of the things that don't matter and focusing on the the 20 percent that will actually make a difference, I think you'll find great results even in the toughest of situations and the harshest of environments.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.

Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

If you just focus on producing good outcomes, all that other stuff sorts itself out.

The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun.

People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.