David Hieatt Quotes

Treat distractions as the enemy. The internet is brilliant but it is one very efficient way of wasting your time.

Build a company you would never sell.

Each day you’re given 86,400 seconds from the ‘Time Bank’. Everyone is given the same. There are no exceptions. Once you make your withdrawal, you’re free to spend it as you want. The ‘Time Bank’ won’t tell you how to spend it. Time poorly spent will not be replaced with more time. Time doesn’t do refunds.

The real badge of honour at work is not to work longer than anyone else, but to work smarter than anyone else.

Self-imposed insanely impossible deadlines often help.

Cold passion’ is calm, considered and long lasting. Both the brain and the heart are working together. Emotions have been takenout of decision-making. And decisions are given time, looked at from all angles. Cold passion is much more effective at getting results.

Hot passion is a bit like infatuation – it burns brightly, but fades quickly.

You will need to create a discipline where head and heart can bothbe involved in the decisions that you make. Taking the emotion out of something you feel very passionate about is far from easy. But easy don’t build great.