Rishi Kapoor Quotes

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

What I'm trying to do is maximize every day.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

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.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.