Focus Quotes

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape"

— Unknown

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."

— Margaret Meade
Anthropologist

"Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it."

— Andrew Carnegie

"The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well."

— Peter Drucker

"Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others."

— Abraham Zaleznik