David Cross Quotes

Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

My productivity is overwhelming!

If I can get some time off and still be productive and go 85-90 percent of the plays, that's fine with me.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

Those who work much do not work hard.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

I get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can't do our job with our customers and work on our software. It would be hard to stay focused.

As we manage our time I think we shall never get out of employment.

I would recommend that every woman who intends to take on a maid should do every bit of her own work first. When she knows exactly the time it takes, the hard work, the weariness it entails, then she can begin with intelligence to plan what her maid can do.