Andre Maurois Quotes

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

I like working in silence.

I'm results-oriented.

Just worry about the work you're doing and the process of that.

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.

Don't equate activity with efficiency.

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.

Never confuse activity with results.

People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.

If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

First, do it. Second, do it well. Third, do it well and fast — that means you're a professional.