Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

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.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

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

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

I don't have the time to be bored.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

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.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.

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.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.