Seymour Cray Quotes

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

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.

You’re putting in the same number of hours a week but we are just repackaging it more efficiently.

I'm trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don't waste people's time.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.

The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Don't equate activity with efficiency.

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.

To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

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.

I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.