Martin Parr Quotes

When I go in, I find that it is not a lab but an office. There are a pile of letters to answer, phone numbers to call up, people waiting to have an interview, routine work that must be done.

I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

I'm a 6 AM guy. I get up at 6 AM every morning so I can knock out my email, phone calls and start the day.

My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

I drive the car pool - I show up with no makeup and drive the kids to school.

It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

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.

I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

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.

Having two kids is like having 1000. It's just scheduling, moving around, being mobile.