Susan Wojcicki Quotes

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

I don’t waste time. I move. I finish things. I don’t try and do things to the nth degree. I know what’s important and what’s not. I’ve really learned that. That’s a judgement I’ve learned, what really matters.

I like to work fast.

Work smart. Get things done.

One of the key principles we have at Amazon is 'by a fraction.' We like to get things done quickly.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

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.

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.

I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.

You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.

If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

I love how you just make coffee and then somehow something gets done.

I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.