Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Quotes

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

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

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

The thing with making your art your business is: It's a business. You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you're in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, 'OK. I can write from 4 to 6.' So you write.

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Business first; pleasure afterwards.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Business before pleasure.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

I'm not in the business of being "friendly."

Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.

If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things