Plato Quotes

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.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

It's better to focus on one film rather than take up two or three films at the same time.

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

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.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.

Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.