“Remember that there is no code faster than no code.”<p>“Every time we say yes to a request, we are also saying no to anything else we might accomplish with the time.”<p>“If you don’t guard your time, people will steal it from you.”<p>“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”<p>“Saying no is so powerful because it preserves the opportunity to say yes.”<p>“One trick is to ask, “If I had to do this today, would I agree to it?”<p>“Hell Yeah or No”<p>“It’s easier to avoid commitments than get out of commitments. Saying no keeps you toward the easier end of this spectrum.”<p>“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”