Chris Gardner Quotes

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

I'm on time even when I try not to be.

I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once, and it cost me a huge opportunity.

I'm always ludicrously early/on time.

I hate being late. I am always punctual. In fact, I am known for it.

If a woman waits 10 years to invest, "I'm busy", "I've got to do this", "I can put it off", "I gotta find the right financial..." It costs her $100 a day. $100 a day! And if we had money falling out of her pocketbook at the rate of $100 a day, we'd change our pocketbook; we'd fix our pocketbook.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.

Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.

I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material.

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

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.

Punctuality is the thief of time

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.