Bill Gates Quotes

I am methodical about my email inbox, and I always have a physical to-do list. Without those two things, I think I'd lose my mind.

I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

I love to-do lists.

You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

I have yellow post-it notes plastered all over my office - they help me stay organized.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

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 was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

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.

Time management is really key for me.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.

Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.