Top 100 Get Things Done Sayings
#1. Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Zygmunt Bauman
#3. I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.
Ratan Tata
#4. Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing.
Tom Rath
#5. America before the 1960s was a pretty innocent place. We were the Lone Ranger galloping off to the rescue of the needy and the oppressed of the world, and we could get things done.
Tim O'Brien
#6. Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.
C.S. Lewis
#7. I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.
Peter Criss
#8. The point is clear. People who get things done in this world don't wait for the spirit to move them; they move the spirit.
David J. Schwartz
#9. On our own we simply don't know how to get things done the same way you do things. But, like everyone else, we want to do the best we possibly can. When we sense you've given up on us, it makes us feel miserable. So please keep helping us, through to the end.
Naoki Higashida
#10. I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.
Nerlens Noel
#11. Be the person others can count on to get things done
Larry Winget
#12. I wish I could be someone that is more in the moment. There's a benefit to being who I am because I get things done, but I probably don't need to be in my own head all the time because it's intense in there.
Steve Grand
#13. When I got to the Senate, I started working with Republicans. I think I practically worked with every single one of them, and a lot of them were on record talking about what a good colleague I am and how I like to get things done.
Hillary Clinton
#14. What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom ... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.
Hyman G. Rickover
#15. Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .
Kevin Cashman
#16. I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
Elon Musk
#17. You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with.
George Carlin
#18. I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.
Doris Lessing
#19. [In] 2010, Woody Allen said that he felt Barack Obama should be a dictator so that he could get things done, and the first thing obviously that Woody Allen wanted done is to make it legal to have sex with stepdaughters.
Greg Gutfeld
#20. Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.
Kyrsten Sinema
#21. I will get things done for America ... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground ... Faced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer.
William J. Clinton
#22. These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.
Lucy Powell
#23. The real world doesn't reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#24. When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
Wendy Davis
#25. All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it is not structured, it is a mob. Mobs do not get things done, they destroy things.
Theodore Levitt
#26. Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke
#27. A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
Simon Sinek
#28. You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.
David Harsanyi
#29. I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.
Jack Kirby
#31. I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.
Rob Portman
#32. People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
Peter McWilliams
#33. In a country as large and diverse as America, compromise is how we get things done. It isn't always pretty, but we have to find solutions to our problems that, at the end of the day, most people can live with.
Mark Udall
#34. The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact ... those people have goals.
Seth Godin
#35. The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.
Brian Tracy
#36. People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me ... If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.
Oliver North
#37. To be purposeful people who can get things done, we need to be able to organize our desires, goals, time, and efforts. This is an important aspect of functioning.
Henry Cloud
#38. If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.
Woodrow Wyatt
#39. I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
Ed Sheeran
#40. The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.
Seth Godin
#41. I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.
Cameron Diaz
#42. Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.
Simon Sinek
#43. Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.
C.S. Lewis
#44. I care about this state ... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track.
Steve Mariucci
#45. The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.
Bill McKibben
#46. The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them
Benjamin Jowett
#47. Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.
Rick Santorum
#48. Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.
Lawrence Blume
#49. Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.
Joel Spolsky
#50. Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#51. On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
Evelyn Underhill
#54. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.
Nicki Minaj
#55. I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.
Henry Rollins
#56. In America, being able to get things done, especially if it's by bending rules, making exceptions, or calling in a favor, is the way to show power. In France, being able to say non (especially to a bureaucratically legitimate request) is the way to show power. And piss me off.
Vivian Swift
#57. Studio films are really fun. You have months and months to shoot. With the smaller films you get to be on a much more intimate set and have to get things done quickly.
Emma Roberts
#58. Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
Richard Rogers
#59. You do not exist in this world to get things done. You exist to glorify God by doing good to others.
Tim Challies
#60. We've got to get things done. We've got an economy that is stabilized, but not moving ahead.
Amy Klobuchar
#61. She's a planner. She doesn't, you know, wing anything. She likes to make lists and check things off, get things done.
Gillian Flynn
#63. For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
Cai Guo-Qiang
#64. I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
Joe Klein
#65. Most people live life backwards. They party and kill time in their youth, when they're strong and have the energy to accomplish great things. And then they're older, they try to get things done, but they have less energy and enthusiasm by that time.
Jarod Kintz
#66. I don't want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don't love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can't get things done.
Henry Rollins
#67. Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.
Michael Nutter
#68. If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.
Ralph Nader
#69. I don't think intimidated is the word. I definitely get excited by it. I don't want to let anybody down. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100 percent perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.
Nicki Minaj
#70. Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
Ang Lee
#71. basis, you may find that it is affecting your daily life because you simply don't get things done. Fortunately, there are a number of habits that you can introduce into your life to stop procrastination. Some of them
Sam Davis
#72. History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.
Michelle Malkin
#73. Even as entrepreneurs, we rely on people to get things done. We may have the original idea, but moving it forward can involve hundreds of people. Every person becomes integral to the overall success.
Donald J. Trump
#74. The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
Terry Pratchett
#75. It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.
Allison Tolman
#76. Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!
Sandra Tsing Loh
#77. Peter, before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. (578)
Ayn Rand
#78. It was becoming very complicated because of all the modifications they were doing along the way and taking everyone double the work hours to get things done.
Sheri Grunska
#79. Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.
Ayn Rand
#80. We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!
Jon Stewart
#81. Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
Naveen Jain
#82. Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.
Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington
#83. I'm just working hard because I know that's the way you can get things done. That's how I've been able to be successful.
Torrey Smith
#84. It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#85. There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?
Sam Altman
#86. QUOTE:
"Creating art and literature requires a creative imagination as well as the ability to get things done in a disciplined manner. Live in the moment, and plan for tomorrow.
Adam Donaldson Powell
#87. So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.
Joel Spolsky
#88. Sometimes I'm overly blunt. I don't like to mince words. I like to get things done. That's the only difference between Chris Christie and I - he's a little shy.
Paul LePage
#89. Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.
Chris Christie
#90. Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#91. Passion isn't always available. The committed get things done even without it.
Ron Kaufman
#92. When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.
John Wooden
#93. A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
Gary Hamel
#94. Yes, it seems that as the President (George W. Bush) comes to the end of his two terms, he's finally realized the best way to get things done for you, is for you to do it.
Jon Stewart
#95. If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.
Alex Garland
#96. Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
Warren G. Bennis
#97. Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power keep forcing people to opposite corners to prepare for a fight instead of coming together to get things done.
Wendy Davis
#98. I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done.
Tony Dungy
#99. It appears, Mister Lipwig, that you do not understand the nature of our relationship. I ask, very politely, for you to achieve something, bearing in mind that there are other ways I could ask, and it is your job to get things done.
Terry Pratchett
#100. There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.
Bill Drayton
