B. C. Forbes Quotes

What has not wasting time impaired?

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

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

We're burnin' daylight!

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

Every moment waited is a moment wasted.

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

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.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

I hate wasting time.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

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.

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.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

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

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.