Shirley Conran Quotes

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

That man is idle who can do something better.

I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

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

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.