William Rounseville Alger Quotes

I've always found when I'm healthy and happy I perform the best, not necessarily when I've done the most training.

All of us have just got to find that time to look after our bodies. That helps us make sure that our mind is sharp. I know that when I'm feeling great and really fit, I can get in three or four hours more of really productive work.

The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.

As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

I find that if I use my time well and take care of my mind/body when I'm outside of work, then I feel more supported throughout my day.

Happiness inspires productivity.