Systemize Your Success Quotes
Willpower runs out; systems do not. The man who builds routines and structure gets consistent results on his worst days, not just his best ones. This Execution path holds history's smartest quotes on systems, habits, and structure. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
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“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.”
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“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
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“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”
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“A good system shortens the road to the goal.”
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“I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.”
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“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”
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“Systems run the business and people run the systems.”
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“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”
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“Standardize, then improve. You cannot improve a process until it is standardized.”
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“Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.”
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“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
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“By keeping your life in order, you can even sleep in storms.”
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“Have a clear system for to-dos: whether it's Getting Things Done or the Checklist Manifesto, just have a system and stick to it. Knowing I have that system keeps me from feeling overwhelmed even when I'm behind or the to-dos pile up.”
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“An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.”
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“Work on your business, not in your business.”
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“The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.”
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“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
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“Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”
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“Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated.”
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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
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“Under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success.”
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“Inspection does not improve the quality, nor guarantee quality. Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product.”
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“Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.”
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“What gets measured gets managed.”
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“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
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“If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we now know, go into it?”
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“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.”
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“Routines free your mind to focus on the big things.”
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“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”
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“Success is the product of daily habits, not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”
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“Losers have goals. Winners have systems.”
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“Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do.”
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“Success isn’t magic; it’s generally the product of picking a good system and following it until luck finds you.”
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“In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.”
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“Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.”
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“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.”
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“Strategy isn’t words; strategy is action.”
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“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
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“I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.”
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“The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.”
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“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
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“People support a world they helped create.”
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“There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.”
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“Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.”
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“In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.”
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“The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.”
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“Success is not a goal to reach or a finish line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.”
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“Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits.”
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“Every Olympian wants to win a gold medal. Every candidate wants to get the job. And if successful and unsuccessful people share the same goals, then the goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers.”
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