E. W. Howe Quotes

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.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

Getting all the things down game-management wise, that's what I want to excel at.

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things

I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things.

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.