Time Management Tips, Skills, Quotes on Time Management

“I want to manage so many things at the same day and at same time.” This thought drills vocatively the mind of anybody who is at the helm of management portfolio. However, one should take into notice several factors that hinder the efforts of the people at management level. Time management needs skillful people, just like in the case of management of assignments, management of team, managing the priorities etc.

Time management can be described in different ways.

Time Management

“Time Management Is the Key to Work Efficiently, Succeed, and Finish the Goal”

“Time management is the process of organizing, planning how to divide the time between specific activities”

To manage time efficiently we have to be skillful, smart, able to understand the nature of the problems and we should be adroit at prioritization, setting up the milestones etc. Here we specify the keys to create the environment conductive to effectiveness:

1. Management of priorities
2. Time reduction for non-priorities
3. Incentives for best performers
4. Pre-plan on priorities, task distribution
5. Skillful team for the task
6. Proactive ness
7. Entrepreneurship
8. Elimination of non-priorities etc.

Time Management can be achieved through suitable strategies. They can be adopted by different ways viz., ABC analysis, Pareto analysis, Eisenhower method, Domino reaction method and POSEC method.

Time management is absolutely important to get success but at the same time we should not ignore maintenance of quality, accuracy, and low stress levels.

Here we furnish below some valuable quotes on time-management:

Time Management Quotations:

• “Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone with determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you”

• “Your time is more valuable than money make it Fabulous”

• “If you can’t manage your time, you won’t be able to manage any other part of your life”

• “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you are the pilot”

• “It’s all about time management. You can actually do a lot of things if you work out your schedule”

• “Time is what we want most but what we use worst”

• “I said to myself: what if I woke up, and every single day I did everything within my ability during that day to change my life. What could happen in just a month? A year?”

  - Liz Murray

• “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once”

• “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else”

• “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

• “Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.” – Donald Rumsfeld

• “Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.” – Napoleon Hill

• “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” – George Patton

• “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” – Alan Lakein

• “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” – Winston Churchill

• “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee

• “Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.” – Paul Gauguin

• “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” – Tom Peters

• “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King

• “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” – Thomas Sowell

• “There is nothing less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker

• “Remember that time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin

• “On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.” – Evelyn Underhill

• “Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

• “Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” – Bill Gates

• “Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.” – Frank Knight

• “The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.” – Peter Drucker

• “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates

• “The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.” – Robert Burton

• “The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.” – Tony Robbins

Time Punctuality Quotes:

1. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa

2. “We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.” – William Shakespeare

3. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln

4. “Time is what we want most, but what we spend worst.” – William Penn

5. “Time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams

6. “If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter?” – Richie Norton

7. “I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It’s good time management.” – Michelle Williams

8. “The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.” – Barry Werner

9. “You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.” – Ashley Ormon

10. “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” – Golda Meir

11. “Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.” – Pandora Poikilos

12. “How did it get so late so soon?” – Dr. Seuss

13. “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin

14. Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. –Napoleon Hill

15. Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week. –Charles Richards