Brian Tracy Quotes

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

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

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.

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

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.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

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

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.

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

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

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.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

There just aren't enough hours in the day; I've got a lot of things that I want to do, and those that I can do, I'm going to make sure that I do do!

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.

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.