Quotes About Organization

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

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

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.

Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.

Order (self-organizat ion): Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what's most important. Then do those things first.

Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

Take charge of your schedule. Make time for reflection and relaxation.

Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.

As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.