Philip Green Quotes

Less is more.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

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.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

One thing I've learned over my career is that simplicity is the key: on the field, off as well.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

In devoting more time and attention to fewer commitments, we can have a bigger impact on the things that matter most.

It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.

I always think less is more.

We need to execute fewer things better.

I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

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.

I do better in life when my world seems a little smaller.