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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“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”
“Standardize, then improve. You cannot improve a process until it is standardized.”
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”
“By keeping your life in order, you can even sleep in storms.”
“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”
“Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.”
“Success is the product of daily habits, not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”
“Systems run the business and people run the systems.”
“If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we now know, go into it?”
“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”
“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.”
“I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.”
“Inspection does not improve the quality, nor guarantee quality. Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
“What gets measured gets managed.”
“An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.”
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
“The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.”
“A good system shortens the road to the goal.”
“Work on your business, not in your business.”
“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.”
“Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”
“Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated.”
“Routines free your mind to focus on the big things.”
“Under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success.”
“Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.”
