Quotes About Time

Long projects zap morale. The longer it takes to develop, the less likely it is to launch. Make the call, make progress, and get something out now—while you've got the motivation and momentum to do so.

The same thing is true with weekday nights. If work can claim hours after 5:00 p.m., then life should be able to claim hours before 5:00 p.m. Balance, remember. Give and take.

Working 40 hours a week is plenty. Plenty of time to do great work, plenty of time to be competitive, plenty of time to get the important stuff done.

If you can't fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not work longer hours.

Remember: Deadlines, not dreadlines.

That's because offices have become interruption factories. A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there.

The scarcity of such face time in remote working situations makes it seem that much more valuable. And as a result, something interesting happens: people don't waste the time. An awareness of scarcity makes them use it wisely.

El nuevo lujo es el lujo de la libertad y el tiempo.

Cuando estás inspirado eres capaz de hacer en veinticuatro horas el trabajo de dos semanas. La inspiración es como una máquina del tiempo.

Algunas veces dejar lo que estás haciendo es la decisión adecuada, incluso si para entonces ya le has dedicado mucho esfuerzo. No insistas en malgastar un tiempo necesario en un trabajo que no lo es.

Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance.

Part of the problem is the perceived need to fill a whole day with management stuff, regardless of whether it's called for or not. All those dreaded status meetings, interruptions for estimates, and planning sessions have a curious way of adding up exactly to a manager's workweek. While monitoring output is sometimes quite important, it's rarely a forty-hour-per-week position. Ten hours maybe, but few full-time managers have the courage to limit their presence to that.

If you can't fit everything in within the time and budget allotted then don't expand the time and budget. Instead, pull back the scope. There's always time to add stuff later – later is eternal, now is fleeting.

Don't worry about design, if you listen to your code a good design will appear...Listen to the technical people. If they are complaining about the difficulty of making changes, then take such complaints seriously and give them time to fix things. -Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks (from Is Design Dead?) If

Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.

A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there. Each segment is filled with a conference call, a meeting, another meeting, or some other institutionalized unnecessary interruption.

There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only, and fast.

Así que formúlate la pregunta: «¿Qué podemos lograr en dos semanas?» Y hazlo. Preséntalo y deja que la gente lo use, lo pruebe, juegue con ello o lo que sea. Cuanto antes llegue a manos de tus clientes, mejor te irá a ti.

Esta adicción no sólo es innecesaria, también es estúpida. Trabajar más horas no implica que estés más involucrado o que seas más productivo. Simplemente implica trabajar más horas.

All those chores you don't have the will to complete after slugging it out with the highway collect into one mean list due on Saturday. By the time you've taken out the trash, picked up the dry cleaning, gone to the hardware store, and paid your bills, half the weekend is gone.

No se esfuerzan en buscar sistemas para ser más eficientes porque a ellos en realidad lo que les gusta es trabajar muchas horas. Les encanta sentirse héroes. Buscan problemas (generalmente sin darse cuenta) simplemente para poder seguir trabajando mucho.

At 37signals, we've found that we need a good four hours of overlap to avoid collaboration delays and feel like a team.

The answer isn't more hours, it's less bullshit.

Los adictos al trabajo no son héroes. No invierten su tiempo, lo malgastan. El héroe de verdad se fue a su casa, porque fue capaz de encontrar una forma más eficiente de hacer su trabajo.