Graham Allcott > Quotes

“Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.’ – Thomas A. Edison”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.’ – Leonardo da Vinci”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.’ – Elbert Hubbard”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.’ – Thomas Edison”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Am I confident that whatever I’m doing at this moment is the most appropriate thing I can be doing?”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“how well you protect and use your attention determines your success.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja - FREE SAMPLER: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Only the mediocre are always at their best.’ – Colin Powell”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“We no longer think about our work: thinking is our work.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“information”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.’
– Confucius”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja - FREE SAMPLER: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Realize that you’ll never get everything done. That’s not the game any more. Be safe in the knowledge that you’re in control, selecting the right things to do, and that you’re doing as much as one human being possibly can,”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“the way of the Productivity Ninja is about how we think about our work, not how we ‘do’ our work.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Great decision-making comes from the ability to create the time and space to think rationally and intelligently about the issue at hand. Decisions made during periods of panic are likely to be the ones we want to forget about. The Ninja realizes this, remains calm in the face of adversity, and equally calm under the pressure of information overload.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja - FREE SAMPLER: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Preparedness is always about giving a gift to your future self. Don’t leave your future self in the lurch, because your future self will be as busy that day as you are now, and needs the help.”
― Graham Allcott, Work Fuel: The Productivity Ninja Guide to Nutrition

“And when the light at the end of the tunnel finally approaches, you realize it’s just some nasty bloke with a torch bringing you more work to do.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“When I’m out and about, I carry two very important A4 plastic files with me in my laptop bag. One is labelled ‘To Office’ and the other ‘To Home’.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“The trouble is, the modern work paradigm gives us so little sense of completion or clear space that it feels like we’re constantly straining to see the light at the end of a long, long tunnel.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Seeming to do is not doing.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“perfection is healthy and even necessary, but in other cases, it needs to be avoided as it prevents us from moving on to the next thing and isn’t efficient.”
― Graham Allcott, A Practical Guide to Productivity: Work Smarter, Not Harder

“Having an internal communications person collate the best of the week’s news and then ensuring everyone reads it is much quicker than asking everyone to sit in a room hearing it for an hour or more.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Cultivating ‘partners-in-crime’: looking for the ‘win-win’ opportunities to work with equally savvy, equally useful and equally inspiring people.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.’
– Leonardo da Vinci”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“We resist the work for several reasons, but it really boils down to three things: we resist things that are scary; we resist things that are difficult; and we resist things that are boring or uninteresting.”
― Graham Allcott, A Practical Guide to Productivity: Work Smarter, Not Harder

“Voicemail is seriously underrated as a communication medium. It’s one-way communication instead of two-way. As such, the caller leaving the message gets to the root of the issue in seconds rather than in minutes and by the time you call them back, you’re both halfway through the conversation that needs to happen.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.’ – Confucius”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

“certain conflicts bring more productive outcomes than ignoring or denying conflict altogether.”
― Graham Allcott, How to be a Productivity Ninja: UPDATED EDITION Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do