Mitch Albom Quotes

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

You only have so much time in a day.

I ain't got time to bleed.

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.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

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.

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.

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.

Those who never have time do least

We're burnin' daylight!

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

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

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.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

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.

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.

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.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

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.

I haven't had the time to find the time too long.