Paul Samuelson Quotes

For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.

The great constraint on the Presidency is time.

When you're on set, and that clock is going, every second you spend doing something is a second you spend not doing something else. That's true of all of life, but it's very vivid on a film set because you're always managing that.

One must say no to some opportunities to open the possibilities of others.

Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.

Unfortunately, life unfolds as it does, and you can't do everything at the same time, and you can't do some things if you can't spend the time.

Need always plays into your decisions more as the draft unfolds.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

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

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.