Carlos Ghosn Quotes

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

I start every day making sure I'm where I need to be and thinking like I need to think.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

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

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

If something's important to you, you make time for it.

My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you.

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.

When you don't play, you realise how important it is and it's extremely important for me.

If you're going to do something, you should go all in and be absorbed in the process and want to do well and be OK with being really consumed by it. But at the same time, I guess the balance there lies in not letting the result define who you are as a person and your self-worth.

I've always striven to ensure that I work on one film at a time.

My work keeps me focused.

I cannot do a better job than a journalist. I cannot do a better job than politicians - what I can do is play my football.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.

I will do anything. Anything, Blaire, just to be near you. I can’t think about anything else. I can’t focus on anything. So never think you’re inconveniencing me. You need me, I’m there.

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.