Peggy Johnson Quotes

I want to do one thing and do it well.

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.

I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

No one intellect should ever strive for distinction in more than one pursuit. Those who boast of preeminence in many arts are either divinely endowed or utterly shameless or simply mad.

I sometimes worry that maybe it's better to be really good at one thing than be okay at a couple things.

I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute.

My whole thing is if you want to do it, then do it. Kobe told me this, but he said, 'You don't wanna lay all your eggs in one basket, but you wanna lay all your eggs in one basket.' If you wanna do something and be great at it, that's what you're going to have to specialize in. Just take it and run.

It's better to do one thing at a time and give your full concentration.