#Time Management Quotes

“Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.”

“Unpunctuality is a vile habit.”

“If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.”

“Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.”

“Quit counting time and start making time count”

“Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'”

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

“Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?”

“If you don't have time to invest in a goals program is it possible that you don't have time because you don't have a goals program?”

“When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.”

“I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.”

“'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.”

“Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.”

“Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.”

“The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.”

“The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.”

“I am too busy. I have not time for worry.”

“You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”

“Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just figuring out that if people call you and say, 'I've got this great, wonderful idea', you don't spend 10 minutes once you know in the first sentence that it isn't a great, wonderful idea...Don't be polite and go through the whole process.”

“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”

“In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.”

“I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.”

“Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in which you execute and utilize time is everything. And most people push up against the threshold of their control.”

“Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.”

“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”

“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”

“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.”

“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.”

“Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.”

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

“I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.”

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life... so love what you do. Your time is limited. Don't waste it.”

“If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.”

“If I had more time, I would have written less.”

“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.”

“Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.”

“If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.”

“Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.”

“To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.”

“Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.”

“One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.”

“Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.”

“If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!”

“Do first things first, and second things not at all.”

“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

“Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.”

“It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.”

“Time is the scarcest resource.”

“Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.”