Rod Steiger Quotes

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Your greatest resource is your time.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

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.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

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.

Let every man be master of his time.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

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

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

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.

Time is valuable; people are busy.

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.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

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.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

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.

Nothing concerns me other than my time. That is my only concern. I don't pay any attention to the rest. I run after time. If that improves, the gold, silver, etc. will follow.

There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.