Martin Cooper Quotes

When we waste our time, our time wastes us

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

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.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

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.

Your greatest resource is your time.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

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

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

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.

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

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Our costliest expenditure is time.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

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 hate wasting time.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same 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.