Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.
Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.
Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
The time is ‘now’ to do something – don’t drag your feet.
Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.
A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don’t have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren’t going to finish a book.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.
When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
Doing less is not being lazy. Don’t give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.