Warren Buffett Quotes

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

Best productivity tool ever invented? Easy...the word "no".

Focusing is about saying No.

I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else's projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle.

When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.

I always got my work done before playing.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

I'm known for having a very small to-do list and a big don't-do list.

That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

Focusing is all about saying no