Jack Dorsey Quotes

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

Complexity is the enemy of execution!

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

Less is more.

I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.