Top 100 Time Management Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.”

— Brian Tracy

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2. “One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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3. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

— Peter F. Drucker

4. “Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, ‘what is the most valuable use of my time right now?’”

— Brian Tracy

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5. “Time – the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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6. “Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.”

— Brian Tracy

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7. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

— William Shakespeare

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8. “Doing less is not being lazy. Don’t give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.”

— Tim Ferriss

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9. “Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.”

— Jim Rohn

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10. “Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .”

— Mark Cuban

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11. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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12. “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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13. “Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.”

— Tim Ferriss

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14. “Do first things first, and second things not at all.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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15. “A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.”

— Brian Tracy

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16. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.”

— David Allen

17. “Time management is really personal management, life management, and management of yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

18. “You can do so much in 10 minutes time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.”

— Ingvar Kamprad

19. “Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”

— Napoleon Hill

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20. “The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.”

— Nolan Bushnell

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21. “When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.”

— Stephen R. Covey

22. “Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task.”

— William James

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23. “Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.”

— Jeff Bezos

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24. “Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.”

— Tim Ferriss

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25. “Most people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.”

— John J. Beckley

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26. “Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?”

— Jim Rohn

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27. “Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.”

— Dhirubhai Ambani

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28. “It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s the work you put in the hours.”

— Sam Ewing

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29. “Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

30. “Time management is about life management.”

— Idowu Koyenikan

31. “Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.”

— Susan Wojcicki

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32. “Don’t start your day until you have it finished on paper first.”

— Jim Rohn

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33. “I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”

— Charles Dickens

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34. “Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.”

— Henry Ford

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35. “Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait.”

— Robert De Niro

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36. “Do not put off today’s work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.”

— Umar

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37. “Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own.”

— Mark Cuban

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38. “Invest time, don’t spend it.”

— Jeffrey Gitomer

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39. “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

— Richard Whately

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40. “People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.”

— John C. Maxwell

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41. “Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.”

— Brian Tracy

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42. “Kill time and you will kill your career.”

— B.C. Forbes

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43. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.”

— Kim Garst

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44. “The way to get ahead is to start now.”

— William Feather

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45. “It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.”

— Gary W. Keller

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

— Joel Osteen

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47. “Ask yourself if what you’re doing today will get you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.”

— Anonymous

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48. “The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.”

— John C. Maxwell

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49. “I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.”

— Lord Chesterfield

50. “‘Every day’ is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.”

— Christopher Rice