Billy Corgan Quotes

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.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

I've learned that the more I streamline what my actual tasks are and where I'd like to direct my energy, as opposed to where I let my energy go in an unaware state of mind, the more energy I have to place where my intentions are. Boundaries are good! Use them and know where they are.

There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

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.

Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.

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.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

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.

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Time management is really key for me.