Glenn Kelman Quotes

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

What I've always tried to do is pick short term goals.

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.

I want to really start focusing on what I want to accomplish and what it is I want to achieve, but not micromanaging this or that and focusing on the little things.

One of the challenges of a good policy is trying to figure out what your priorities are.

First Things First

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

I read somewhere that people who make lists are more likely to achieve their ambitions.

I think it helps if you have a clear vision of what you want.

To me, you have to take your schedule and just take things one game at a time.

After my first year, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, what I wanted to get better at, and how I was going to do it.

If I focus on the short-term goals, then the long-term goals are going to be in my favor.

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

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Organize and execute around priorities.

The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.

I think we have to focus,on exactly what the priorities are.

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

Before you can get what you want, you have to know what you want,and make a game plan to get it