It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.
Interpretation
Success is determined by the quality of your energy and focus rather than the number of hours worked.
This quote emphasizes that the effectiveness and value of work are not solely dependent on the time spent but are more closely tied to how engaged and focused one is during that time. It suggests that delivering high-quality energy and concentration can lead to more meaningful outcomes than simply working longer hours.
In practice
In a team meeting to discuss productivity improvement, this quote can highlight the importance of focused energy.
The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you'll get a great return.
The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really... it's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good.
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