Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

Work first, and then rest.

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

Those who work much do not work hard.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

I like to work fast.

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.

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.'

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.

Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Measure not dispatch by the times of sitting, but by the advancement of business.

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.