George Washington Quotes

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

At all times it is better to have a method.

I love order and organization.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

I am an organization freak!

I'm the total organizer. Everything's got a system. It's in order.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

Order is the key to all problems.

Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

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.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

I just have to be very, very organised.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

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.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.