Ivy Lee Quotes

Time management is really important.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.

Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority.

I always make lists of things I need to get done. I like the sense of having completed one thing so I can move on to the next.

Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you're putting the most important things first.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

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

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

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

Time management is really key for me.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

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.

When I come into the office, the first thing I do is I plan out what I want to accomplish that day. I write it down in my notebook and make sure I accomplish it before I leave that day.

I love to-do lists.

I'm very organized. I have my day-to-day schedule, every 15 minutes, written out.

In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.

I am anal about my Gmail calendar. It's my life. I put everything in there - my to-do list, or even if I want to do things.