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Position your daily actions so time is working for you instead of against you.

Jeff Olson

You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

Kenneth More

Pareto’s Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

Joseph M. Juran

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Anne Robinson

If you don’t have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it’s begun.

John Cage

The less you talk, the more time you have for the essential things.

Niki Lauda

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

Brian Tracy

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

Norman Ralph Augustine

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

Crawford Greenewalt

You cannot grow more hours in the day. However, you can make better use of those hours.

Paul Zane Pilzer

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

Tom DeMarco

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

1st Baron Lytton

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Laozi

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time

Leo Kennedy

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Chesterfield

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Rick Warren

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