Richard Branson Quotes

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

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.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

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

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

You don't have to do everything; just do what really matters.

First things first, second things never.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."