Peter Drucker Quotes

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

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.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.

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 important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

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

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

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

Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!