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• The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Keys, Done, Execution

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

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• After you do one thing, you've got one thing done.

  Mike Caro

  Done, One Thing

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• 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

  Age, Done, Way

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• Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

  R. K. Milholland

  Mistake, Lost Friendship, Forgiving

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• Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a joint, it enhances just sitting in a chair. Then I don't even want to get up to change a record. That might not be a bad thing, but you have to get things done once in a while.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Sitting, Done, Records

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• Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. After all, every football play is designed to go for a huge gain. The reason it doesn’t is because of execution—people drop balls, miss blocks, go to the wrong place, and so forth. So, success depends on execution—on the ability to get things done.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Football, Block, Play

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• Power is the ability to get things done

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Done, Ability

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.166, Basic Books

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• Perfection is lots of little things done well.

  Fernand Point

  Perfection, Done, Littles

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• Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

  Fernand Point

  Done, Small Things

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• Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

  Alan Cohen

  Priorities, Done, Excuse

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• I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done

  Peter Criss

  Believe, Devil, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Ideas, People, Done

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• When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done

  Tom Reed

  Thinking, Trying, Groups

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• Small things done with great love will change the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Great Love, Done, World

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• You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

  Norman Granz

  People, Done, Way

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• We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

  Tony Abbott

  Games, Done, Blame

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• I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly.

  Bernard Gilpin

  Hate, Decision, Done

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 187, 1895.

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• 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

  Organization, People, Done

  Theodore Levitt (1974). “Marketing for business growth”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

  Bette Davis

  Couple, Age, Done

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• I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Husband, Moving, Piano

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• Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.

  Orrin Woodward

  Done, Littles, Little Things

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2016

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• What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

  Tristan Wilds

  Beautiful, Real, People

  "Getting to the End of The Wire with Tristan Wilds". Interview with Jon Hein, www.tvguide.com. March 3, 2008.

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• We live in two worlds - order and chaos. In the world of order, we plan, reflect, and think about what to do next. In the world of chaos, things happen, we get things done, yet unpredictability persists. In one world, we like to think we are in control. In the other, we mingle together with increasing complexity, conflict, and uncertainty.

  David Spangler

  Thinking, Order, Two

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• 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

  Country, America, People

  "Calling It Like I See It: Congress, the Tea Party, and the Way Forward" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, President

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