Tim Ferriss Quotes

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

If your priorities don't get scheduled into your planner, other people's priorities will get put into your planner.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.

When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

You put your time where your priority is.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

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.

I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.

If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.

I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.

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.

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy.

Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.