Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion.

Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.

Part of success is preparation on purpose.

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

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

Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

I expect you to work hard on our agenda.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult.

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

I have learned that if this is what I am going to do, and do it well, then I have to avoid drinking.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

Don't talk too much, be focused on the goal and achieve it.