When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.
As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Organize and execute around priorities.
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
Be quick, but don't hurry.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.
A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.
Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.
If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.
There is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
