Ivanka Trump Quotes

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Organize and execute around priorities.

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you're not doing while you're doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It's hard and fun.

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

When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

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

I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.

The more you have to do, the more you have only NOW to get it done. That's why busy people get the most done.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

Every day, do something that is truly important in moving you toward your goals. You must choose to invest your time in the important steps. When you take charge of your time, you take charge of your life. How you spend your time reflects your priorities.

Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.

Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy.