Things Done Quotes - Page 8

• I've always been a reformer all the time I served in public office, and remain a reformer in Ohio, but I also know how to get things done. And I think it's important that, while we acknowledge the anxieties that Americans have, I think it's also important we realize at the end of the day, we need to have somebody who knows how to land a plane, and I've landed quite a few planes.

  John Kasich

  Thinking, Ohio, Land

  "John Kasich on rising in the New Hampshire polls; Sens. Ron Johnson and Chris Murhpy on how America should respond to Europe's refugee dilemma". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2015.

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• I wish I could be someone that is more in the moment. There's a benefit to being who I am because I get things done, but I probably don't need to be in my own head all the time because it's intense in there.

  Steve Grand

  Who I Am, Wish, Needs

  "¡EXCLUSIVA! The Real Deal: An Interview With Kickstarter King Steve Grand". Boy Culture Interview, www.boyculture.com. 28 de febrero de 2014.

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• There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

  Sam Altman

  Inteligente, Equipo, Personas

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• We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Successful, Done

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.

  Sam Altman

  Moving, Done, Founders

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• Tienes que hacer bien una cosa, si no, no tienes permiso para hacer nada más.

  Larry Page

  Necesidades, Hecho, Ejecución

  "CEO de Google: Steve Jobs Criticized Us For 'Doing Too Much Stuff'" por Lisa Eadicicco, www.businessinsider.com. 7 th Of July de 2014.

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• I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.

  George Lucas

  Ideas, Challenges, Trying

  "Fenómeno cinematográfico". Entrevista de la Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. 19 de junio de 1999.

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• Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.

  Joel Spolsky

  Smart, Team, Simple

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• I think it does give me different stuff and I feel like television moves a lot faster than movie sets do. It's kinda like they have to get things done within a certain timeframe. So do movies but it seems like, as far as television is concerned, it just moves a helluva lot faster.

  Ludacris

  Moving, Thinking, Giving

  Fuente: www.movieweb.com

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• Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness of thinking we have to get somewhere else first before we can rest; thinking we need to get certain things done to feel we have accomplished something before we can be happy.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Firsts

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• History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

  Michelle Malkin

  Government, Done, Sake

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• Yes, it seems that as the President (George W. Bush) comes to the end of his two terms, he's finally realized the best way to get things done for you, is for you to do it.

  Jon Stewart

  Two, President, Done

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• The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

  Seth Godin

  Running, Fun, Impact

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• Steady, sustained, and incremental spiritual progress produces the fruit of steadfastness-and helps us to reduce the disparity between what we know and what we do. Testimony is strengthened and conversion unto the Lord is deepened through small and simple things done well over time.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Simple, Progress

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• Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That's short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Sleep, Exercise, Challenges

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• Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Done, Getting Things Done

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.25, Multnomah

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• Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, People, Energy

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• Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

  Jacques Barzun

  Moving, Done, Function

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• Connecting with people, getting things done - that's what makes the travel worthwhile.

  Tim Finchem

  People, Done, Worthwhile

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• A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Helping Others, Leader

  "Simon Sinek: A Good Leader Serves". www.askmen.com.

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• When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Baseball, Team, Kids

  "Jerry Bruckheimer predice que el cine estadounidense dejará de dominar a nivel internacional". "Los maestros de Hollywood" con Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 27 de octubre de 2015.

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• If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Weed, Smart, Tv Shows

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patric Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

  Jack Kirby

  People, Forever, Done

  Fuente: www.tcj.com

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• La experiencia humana demuestra que son las personas, y no las organizaciones o los sistemas de gestión, las que hacen las cosas.

  Hyman Rickover

  Organization, People, Done

  Estados Unidos. Congreso. Comité Económico Conjunto, Hyman George Rickover (1982). "Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session"

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• So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.

  Joel Spolsky

  Progress, Important, Done

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