Tim Ferriss Quotes

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it's very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one's very busy.

Productivity doesn't have to be complicated. It can be easily boosted through a manageable combination of the right tools, resources, and habits to make the most of your time.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

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

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.

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 think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

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.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Time management is really key for me.

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

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.

The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.

Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

My productivity is overwhelming!