Drake Quotes

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Better laid than never.

Punctuality is the thief of time

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life.