Richard Koch Quotes

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time... I don't want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

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

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

We need to have fewer meetings, not more—as we have to have time to put into effect some of the things we decide in these meetings.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.” I was totally confused. “In the car?” “In your life,” he said.

There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do.

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

No time is wasted time

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

Time can be an ally or an enemy.

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.