Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Let every man be master of his time.

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

You got to keep all your weaknesses away, and my weakness is women. I love women too much. Which has definitely road-blocked me. I just try my best to channel my energy to other things and remain focused while making my work as fun as everything else.

I am a workaholic, and I sometimes wish that there were 48 hours in a day. But I know how to manipulate my time beneficially.

No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.