Quotes About Timeliness

Delay in justice is injustice.

Immediacy is efficiency.

ALTHOUGH HE had not got to bed until two, Bond walked into his headquarters punctually at ten the next morning.

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

If you don't fix wrongs in time , they'll never go away !

I knew I could always work harder and be better and show I'm more prepared. I had a whole science to, like, how you have to arrive 17 minutes early to something. If you're 20 minutes early, that means you're too eager, but 17 minutes gives you time to, like, settle, sign in, use the ladies' room, have some water, and get comfortable.

That isn't always enough. I had written a piece for the Wall Street Journal's weekly column called the Manager's Journal. The editor liked the piece but kept pushing it back so he could publish other pieces that were timelier. So I began to rewrite the intros to my piece each week to relate to something that was in the news at the time. In short order, the article finally saw the light of day.

Actually," Joe said, "you're right on time.

the problem with lag measures is that they come too late to change your behavior:

The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time.

If you don't find problems quickly, you end up finding them months later. By then, the problem is lost in all the other changes that every other developer made, so the link between cause and effect disappears without a trace.

Better never than late.

Delay not to seize the hour!

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.

I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

Delay of justice is injustice.

During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.