
“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone”
14 January 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/158292486358446081
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“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone”
BBC interview, used in a Citroën ad, as quoted in "John Lennon Appearance In Car Ad Stirs Controversy" by Monica Herrera in Billboard (4 March 2010) http://www.billboard.com/column-viralvideos/john-lennon-appearance-in-car-ad-stirs-controversy-1004072693.story#/column-viralvideos/john-lennon-appearance-in-car-ad-stirs-controversy-1004072693.story. Though there has been no official dispute that he made this statement, a YouTube video has claimed that the audio used in the advertisement is not original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipyUk5-wlFg.
Disputed
“We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it.”
When talking about economic reforms. http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication_summary12588_en.htm&ved=0ahUKEwiBxefUmpXRAhVJjywKHZEnBBIQFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNGP2YiE7cKXtbR9DsI71bR6q0OkGw (page 4 of the report).
2007
“Leadership is ability to decide what is to be done a then get others to do it.”
“He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.”
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 34 (p. 310)
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”
“Do not look back upon what has been done. Go ahead!”
Pearls of Wisdom