Michael Gerber Quotes

I've learned time management, organization and I have priorities.

If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic of steps orchestrated, you can never get to the critical steps that I outline in any one of dozens of books.

Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority.

When I come into the office, the first thing I do is I plan out what I want to accomplish that day. I write it down in my notebook and make sure I accomplish it before I leave that day.

In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.

As entrepreneurs, we already know our most valuable asset is time, but not every entrepreneur knows how to properly use that time.

I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

Time management is really key for me.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.