Elbert Hubbard Quotes

I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.

He needs both patience and speed.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

Keeping up with everything I do requires some sacrifices, but once and a while I need to take some time to myself.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

It's always better to be doing.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can't do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I'm very interested in life and you don't want to lose that.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.