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Great Quotes about Time Management

Posted by RuthTiffin
Friday, June 25th, 2010

Time Management is a part of everybody’s life, both personal & professional. Below are some great quotes relating to Time Management which I hope you find thought provoking:

  • “Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.” (Peter Drucker)
  • “Time equals Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.” (Alan Lakein)
  • “I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.” (E.B. White)
  • “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” (Henry Ford)
  • “The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.” (Richard Koch)
  • “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
  • “This loving person is a person who abhors waste–waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.” (Leo Buscaglia)
  • “We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs …” (Aristotle)
  • “Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
  • “Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.” (Elbert Hubbard)
  • “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” (Charles Darwin)
  • “Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” (Mark Twain)
  • “Don’t start your day until you have it finished on paper first.” (Jim Rohn)
  • “We think much more about the use of money, which is renewable, than we do about the use of time, which is irreplaceable” (J.L Servan-Schreiber)
  • “As far as we are able to discover, no one, on their death bed, vowed “I wish I’d spent more time at work” (Rob Parsons)
  • “If you have someone who is good in a crisis, get rid of them, otherwise you’ll always have one” (Anon.)
  • “And remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.  Today is a gift.  That’s why it’s called the present.” (Anon)
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Top Tips for High Flyers

Posted by RuthTiffin
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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Most people in business want to be a success, but how do you become one of the favoured high fliers who seem to have the world at their feet?

Here are five tips to help you join the select band who reach the very pinnacle of organisations.

Tip #1 – Become a Protégé

Pick someone at the top of the organisation who people respect, and approach them for advice. The vast majority will be flattered to be asked and this gives you some valuable one-on-one time and also a chance to present your ideas. When a position becomes available, guess who they will have in mind?

Tip #2 – Influence effectively

The best people know how to get people to work for them. The trick is to use the right medium. If you want to maximise the probability of succeeding in persuading someone to do something for you then speak to them face to face. If you can’t do this then ring them and speak to them. If you want to minimise your chances then send them an email.

Tip #3 – List your goals and do not share them with anyone

These goals are the ones that you desire to attain the most, so regularly review them until they become embedded in your brain. Do not share them – others will decry your efforts or work actively to discourage you. You don’t need this kind of help.

Tip #4- Have a sense of humour

Bad days are inevitable so develop the habit of not taking yourself too seriously. As long as this is not overdone it shows that you are actually human.

Tip #5 – Do your own filing

Being prepared and organised. This means creating your own filing system that works for your brain. It needs to work in such a way that you can lay your hands on information and documents easily and quickly. This means faster than anyone else. Time spent hunting for such information and documents is time wasted.

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