S. Truett Cathy Quotes

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.

It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm and go about our business with undivided attention, we will not only accomplish more but we'll do a better job - and find ourselves more patient, more at peace.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.

I work better under pressure.

If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

Remember, it's more mentally tiring to think about what has to be done, and all the things that might go wrong, than it is to physically do the job.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

You get the job done or you don't.

I don’t waste time. I move. I finish things. I don’t try and do things to the nth degree. I know what’s important and what’s not. I’ve really learned that. That’s a judgement I’ve learned, what really matters.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

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.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.