Richard Koch Quotes

I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

We have limited time, and we have to maximize it.

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

I try to be as efficient as possible because in my process, I think that actually helps the work. I like having the pressure of time and money and really trying to stick to the parameters we've been given.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

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

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

You cannot grow more hours in the day. However, you can make better use of those hours.

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

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

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.