Tony Blair Quotes

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Johnson showed me how important it was to use every hour of every day to shape national policy while we had the power to do so.

In order to have your short term policies accepted, you have to have your long term policies understood.

The long view counts.

There is something to this vision thing.

When I served as Prime Minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once and ended my administration in failure.

Barak Obama is a chess player in a town full of checkers players.

If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic of steps orchestrated, you can never get to the critical steps that I outline in any one of dozens of books.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

You always need enough results to buy you time to do things over a longer period of time.

As a player I think you naturally think long term and think what is the schedule in the next year or so.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

I think we have to focus,on exactly what the priorities are.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.