Quotes

The Effective Executive, Page 902

Everything requires time. It is the one truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time.

The Effective Executive, Page 925

There are constant pressures toward unproductive and wasteful time-use.

The Effective Executive, Page 954

People are time-consumers. And most people are time-wasters.

The Effective Executive, Page 990

The larger the organization, therefore, the less actual time will the executive have.

The Effective Executive, Page 1022

To get the work done with people (and no other resource is available) therefore requires lots of time, thought, and judgment.

The Effective Executive, Page 1035

…innovation and change make inordinate time demands on the executive.

The Effective Executive, Page 1041

…one cannot even think of managing one’s time unless one first knows where it goes.

The Effective Executive, Page 1058

Time-use does improve with practice. But only constant efforts at managing time can prevent drifting.

The Effective Executive, Page 1067

…all one has to do is to learn to say “no” if an activity contributes nothing to one’s own organization, to oneself, or to the organization for which it is to be performed.

The Effective Executive, Page 1125

We usually tend to overrate rather than underrate our importance and to conclude that far too many things can only be done by ourselves.