Don Herold Quotes

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

I always got my work done before playing.

You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

I don't do what I love to do a lot of the time.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today -- for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

You meet people who say, "Oh, I'd like to do such-and-such, but I don't have the time." But it always seemed to me like you make the time. And if you have a wife or a job, if you have kids or whatever, you find a way. If you really want to do it, you make the time.

When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

I live a very balanced life. I am very good at delegating responsibilities.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.