Focused Effort Quotes

Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'

He who defends everything defends nothing.

Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

You gotta choose what battles you can win.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results

I won't fight just to fight, I'm fighting to win.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

You can't go into a game lax and acting like somebody isn't trying to beat you.

Success is never accidental.