Anne Wojcicki Quotes

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.

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

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

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

I have been a soldier and a commander for many years and know how to differentiate between things - not to be busy all the time with the most sensitive matters and to give everything its due attention without having the issues that cause concern to constantly be troubling or worrisome.

In promotional mode, every day is a series of decisions. You can easily fill up your day with checklist stuff.

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

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.

A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one.

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

You could be in the United Nations office all night every night and still feel like you were not making a sufficient dent in the world's problems. I think the key is prioritization. But every job presents the tyranny of the inbox, of allowing the urgent to crowd out the important. So we have to have our lodestars.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

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

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

You still need to understand what your fundamental and primary jobs are you have to make sure that you execute those before you can really dabble into something else.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

In the army, all combat officers are taught the "Estimate of the Situation": When you are faced with a problem - take that hill, or in business maybe grow your market share - the first thing you do is to make an analysis of your environment.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.