Brendan Rodgers Quotes

I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

I like working with south Indian directors because they are very disciplined. They visualize their entire story and screenplay in their heads even before they start shooting, which I respect. They finish their work on time. Being a disciplinarian myself, this suits my style.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

I wake up an hour and a half before I have to leave the house to do everything I need to do. But I have my routine, and I stick to it.

I am a person who works to deadlines.

Being on time is a practice I imbibed from my dad. He would be ready with make-up on at least three hours ahead of schedule.

People in the South are very organised and are thorough professionals besides being good paymasters. They are very disciplined and start and wrap up work on time.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

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 magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

I'm always at least ten minutes early.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic, which all the girls have, we all have that same thing going on.

I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail.

Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.

...if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.

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

After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.