Orson Welles Quotes

Economy is the thief of time.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

I made a cold calculation that I wasn’t going to waste time on a futile struggle.

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more.

Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.

Our thinking has always been in trying to grab the limited amount of spare time people have and always try to offer some unprecedented attraction to the consumer.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.

World War II was a must win.

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

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.

And don't think that by eating freedom fries you are being patriotic and helping the war effort. Use less gasoline, read a newspaper. You know what, how about we cool it with the freedom fries anyway you fat asses. We're the fattest country in the world. Have you ever walked around an American mall? It's nothing but chick fillets and Lane Bryant track suits busting at the seams.

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.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.

Art is too long, and life is too short.