George Stigler Quotes

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

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.

The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

Economy is the thief of time.

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

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

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.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches.

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

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

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.

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.