Quotes on Time Management

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.