Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

I'm so focused that sometimes I feel like I don't need to eat.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.

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.

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

The most important thing is to focus, focus, focus.

I don't have the time to be bored.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

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.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

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

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

My greatest asset now is my focus.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.