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Remember too that your time is your one finite resource, and when you say yes to one thing you are inevitably saying no to another.
Andrew S. Grove High Output Management · 1983

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“Here I’d like to introduce the concept of leverage, which is the output generated by a specific type of work activity. An activity with high leverage will generate a high level of output; an activity with low leverage, a low level of output.”

Andrew S. Grove · High Output Management, 1983 · Primary source

“Remember that by saying yes—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitiy saying no to something else. Each time you make a commitment, you forfeit your chance to commit to something else.”

Andrew S. Grove · High Output Management, 1983 · Primary source

“Turn up your nose at good ideas. You must work on great ideas, not good ones.”

Alan Kay · Alan Kay’s talk at Creative Think seminar, 1982 · Secondary source

“Better is the enemy of best.”

Alan Kay · Alan Kay’s talk at Creative Think seminar, 1982 · Secondary source

“For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.”

Vilfredo Pareto · No reliable source

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