Jimmy Buffett Quotes

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

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

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

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

We will never have 100 percent certainty except in hindsight.

Measure not dispatch by the times of sitting, but by the advancement of business.

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.

You never know how history is going to view things.

To remove or not to remove? That is the question.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

It is always better to be inefficient and correct than to be incorrect and efficient.

You get judged on your results.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

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.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

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

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

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

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

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