Don DeLillo Quotes

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

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

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

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.

Your greatest resource is your time.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Time can be an ally or an enemy.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

Years are like candy bars... We're paying more, but they're getting shorter.

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

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone

Our costliest expenditure is time.

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.

I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.

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

I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.