Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

FOUR

Concentrate Your Powers

WARREN BUFFETT, Bill Gates Jr., and Bill Gates Sr. were chatting together at a social event when an executive approached them with a question. “What would you gentlemen say is the most important quality for success in business?”

According to bystanders, all three of these highly successful businessmen turned to the questioner and said simultaneously: “Focus!”

In a world of nonstop distraction, from telephone calls and voice mail to text messages, the Internet, and the people all around you, your ability to focus single-mindedly is absolutely essential for your success. In fact, all real success in life comes from developing the ability to concentrate your time, attention, and talents on those few tasks that ...