Ted Engstrom Quotes

The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

It’s quite difficult to find the time for strategic thought.

There's never enough hours in the day to do what you want to do. What I've become OK with is that not everything can be done today. As long as I can get that time in with my son, then I can get all of the other stuff done today or tomorrow.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

A fundamental principle that I learned in my career, and a principle that my consulting company McChrystal Group helps American civilian companies to adopt, is that winning units and organizations ensure that the time they actually spend - daily, weekly, and yearly - must hew closely to their priorities.

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

We know Donald Trump wants to hit his goals ahead of time, and under budget.

Nothing concerns me other than my time. That is my only concern. I don't pay any attention to the rest. I run after time. If that improves, the gold, silver, etc. will follow.

Time management is really important.

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

One of the biggest mistakes that founders can make is doing something that maybe seems like a great idea, and seems like a good use of time, but actually isn't measurable, significant, incremental growth.

In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

I like to have a lot of time to be able to format what I want to do, and how I'm going to do my training camp. When you're doing a camp on short notice, it makes everything else suffer.

I don't want to just make music. My only problem is that there are 24 hours in a day and that I have one of me.

24 hours a day, I'm thinking about what we can do with this artist, what I can do myself over here, and how we can tie it all together.

When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.

Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I need to create a made-up deadline for myself for my own records. Otherwise, I don't write anything.

If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because the world will suck it up.

Timing is everything for me, especially.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.