Virgil Quotes

Concentrate on doing what you do best, and let others do the rest.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.

If all of us try to do everything, we will accomplish nothing.

You can't do everything on the field.

If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.

A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don't want to do too much.

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

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.

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 believe in doing what I am best at. I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.

There's a reason I write articles and go out for good dinners: because I'm better at research than cooking. And there are people who are much better at cooking than research, so it's mutually beneficial for us to specialize.