Focus Quotes

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use email and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the emails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

Focusing is all about saying no.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.