Quotes About Time-management

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.

Avoid with fury the killers of time.

I would have written something shorter, but I didn't have time.

There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient?

My original intention with The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW), The 4-Hour Body (4HB), and The 4-Hour Chef (4HC) was to create a trilogy themed after Ben Franklin's famous quote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." People constantly ask me, "What would you put in The 4-Hour Workweek if you were to write it again? How would you update it?" Ditto for 4HB and 4HC. Tools of Titans contains most of the answers for all three.

In my case, I use spam filters, autoresponders with FAQs, and automatic forwarding to outsourcers to limit my e-mail obligation to 10–20 e-mail responses per week. It takes me 30 minutes per week because I used systems—elimination and automation—to make it so.

The Effective Executive,

Create slack, as no one will give it to you.

three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active?

Momentum: Chrome extension to help you focus.

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash.

Concéntrate en ser productivo, no en estar ocupado.

Estar ocupado es una forma de vagancia: pereza para pensar y acción indiscriminada. Estar ocupado sirve casi siempre para disfrazar el aplazamiento de unas pocas tareas muy importantes pero incómodas.

I feel like team meetings should happen one time a year, and that should be it.

Lack of discipline is an invader, constantly searching for ways into your life, testing your defenses at every turn. It is a time-traveling bandit that steals from the pockets of the future you and tosses a fraction of that future reward to your present self while keeping the rest.

If I'm going on vacation, I just work ahead.

Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way