The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

Bottlenecks are usually at the tops of bottles.

A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.

If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?"

Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.