Ingvar Kamprad Quotes

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of 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.

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.

You only have so much time in a day.

It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time. All those begin to count up. It's not the long amounts of time you have that are important. you should learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you.

We have limited time, and we have to maximize it.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

I ain't got time to bleed.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Those who never have time do least

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

There is always time to take more time.

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.

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

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.

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

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

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