John D. Rockefeller Quotes

What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

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

You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.

Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

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.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

Decisiveness is the best way to get things done.

Support what works and stop supporting what does not work.