Tom Stoppard Quotes

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes.

We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Don't equate activity with efficiency.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

Go and do, don't sit and stew.

Organize and execute around priorities.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

I don't have time for any nonsense.

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

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

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.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.