Malcolm Forbes Quotes

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

You only have so much time in a day.

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

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

Time can be an ally or an enemy.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

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.

You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

My problem is always the number of hours in a day, not the number of things I want to do.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

Invest time, don't spend it.