Time Management Quotes

"A man who cannot manage his own time can manage nothing else."

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance."

"I try to have as few meetings as possible."

"Procrastination is one of the most common causes of failure.... Procrastination stands within the shadow of every human being, waiting his opportunity to spoil one's chances of success."

"If we want to have a big impact, the best way to do that is to focus on the long term."

"I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving. pp. 486–7"

"Time management is really about energy management. Work when you are at your peak."

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."

"The secret of a happy life is a disciplined use of time."

"Every day is a new opportunity to do better."

"I try to stay focused on the long term."

"The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away the things that don't matter."

"I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day. p. 491"

"What people call an "Interruption" is simply new input inappropriately managed. 19 June 2009"

"A schedule is a way of ensuring you don't do the most important thing because you have to do the next thing."

"The only thing I cannot recover is lost time."

"He who saves time saves life."

"Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but your time, your love, your services."

"I try to avoid the 'busy trap'."

"Every day I wake up and I ask myself, 'How can I help the people around me?'"

"If you can't explain why a meeting is necessary, it shouldn't happen."

"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less chary of the latter than the former."

"I am always in a hurry, yet I am never in a rush."

"I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build."

"I think it is very important to have blocks of time where you can just think."

"People don't care about what you say, they care about what you build."

"Structured procrastination is the art of doing something useful while avoiding something even more important."

"Activity! Activity! Speed!"

"Each moment is an opportunity to do good."

"I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might be only temporary."

"I try to do the most important thing first every day."

"We don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services."

"Most people spend their time on the urgent instead of the important."