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I asked successful people what the secret of their success was. I (26) an early discussion with a vice president of a large oil company. "Oh, I just keep a To Do List," he said. I (27) that quickly, little suspecting the importance of what he said.
I was in another city the next day and I had lunch with a (28) who practically owned the town. He was chairman of the gas and light company, president of five (29) companies, and had his hand in a dozen other (30) . I asked him how he (31) to get everything done. "Oh, that’s easy," he said. "I keep a To Do List." The first thing in the morning, he told me, he would come in and list what he wanted to (32) that day. He would arrange the items in priority.
During the day he would (33) items and add others as they occurred to him. In the evening he would check to see how many of the items he had written down still remained (34) and then give himself a score. His goal manages to cross off every single item.
Again and again in the years since, when I have talked to successful people, the To Do List has (35) I have found that one difference between people at the top of the ladder and people at the bottom is that those at the top use a To Do List every day to make better use of their time; those at the bottom don’t.

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