The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee IacoccaRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Prioritizing what matters most allows you to invest your time and effort effectively.
This quote emphasizes the importance of identifying the most crucial tasks in your life or work in order to utilize your time wisely. By focusing on what truly matters and dedicating your full energy to those priorities, you can achieve success and make the best use of your time.
Themes
TimePriorityEffortSuccessFocus
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech on time management.
More from Lee Iacocca
All quotes βI have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee IacoccaRead
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Lee IacoccaRead
Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
Lee IacoccaRead
What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.
Lee IacoccaRead
In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.
Lee IacoccaRead
Similar quotes
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
Max LernerRead
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
B. C. ForbesRead
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
J. Paul GettyRead
I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.
Lauren BacallRead
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
Jim RohnRead
I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
Jim ValvanoRead