Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

We need to have fewer meetings, not more—as we have to have time to put into effect some of the things we decide in these meetings.

In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late. It wastes time and creates rigidity in schedules. Everyone knows I hate long meetings.

Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.

If anybody normally has a 45 minute conference call about something, I'm 15 minutes late and then I'm out 15 minutes before everybody else, and I cut to the key information and I move on. I learned that from my dad and guys like Jason Blum, who know how to do that.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.

Donald Trump probably spends more time getting more things done than many people have any experience with, but yet he's the one undisciplined, he's the one that's haphazard, he's the one who's erratic, he's the one who's unpredictable.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

A meeting moves at the pace of the slowest mind in the room.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.

Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.