Frank Luntz Quotes

We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

My actual passion is getting things done.

My job is to get things done.

The work is getting the work.

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.'

When I'm working, I'm working and I'm focused on that day's work.

I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.

I like efficient people. I'm pretty impatient, so I can't stand people who putter around.

Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

I'm a big believer of having a vision board, so I have a vision board, and that's motivating because it shows me all the things I have accomplished and all the things I still want to accomplish.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

I expect you to work hard on our agenda.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

It's always better to be doing.

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don't want to do anything else. I don't go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It's a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I'm too interested in many other things.