Ron Johnson Quotes

The secret of getting things done is to act!

I always found when I was most focused, that's when I did the best financially.

I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve them by. I was amazed when I started reaching these goals by the date I had listed on them. It was a daily visualization exercise, and it almost always works.

I set some goals: little goals first and then the big ones. I stopped thinking about big achievements.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

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.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

The main thing I wanted was to manage.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.

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

I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.

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.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.