Theophrastus Quotes

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

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

There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

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.

Your greatest resource is your time.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

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

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

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

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

Controlled time is our true wealth.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

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.

When we waste our time, our time wastes us

You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

Time can be an ally or an enemy.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.