Walter F. Ulmer Quotes

Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

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.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

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

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

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.

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

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

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.