Quotes About Timeliness

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Do not defer it. What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

You can't just change your feelings, but you can change your daily habits to strengthen your sense of gratitude, which will then produce feelings of gratefulness that will reinvigorate you.

It's not enough to use information for "something"—it needs to be immediate and important.

Which of these highest-value activities is the easiest for me to do?

To Ukrainians, Americans seemed comically slow to react to the obvious threats of cyberwar and fake news. When

Promptitude—Courtesy—Intelligence

the order was accepted, produced and delivered on time.

An Austrian punctuality combined with Russian bravery

The more up-to-date the information, the more valuable it is.

If they send you an e-mail, respond within twenty-four hours, though two hours is far better, and two minutes is best.

The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.

Don't you hate when people are late to work. And they always have the worst excuses. "Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic." "Traffic, huh? How do you think I got here; helicoptered in!?"

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Exactly," he says. "And look, Gregory, it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

it's all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

I think that is one thing I've picked up: follow a routine, be consistent, and everything is going to fall in place. If you are scrambling around, and you are late for stuff, that adds extra stress, and you have to go out there and hit a 97 mph fastball.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.