Time Investment Quotes

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

It takes time to restore an old historic car - you can't just do it overnight. That's how I look at the administration that came before Obama.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

It took me five years to learn how to sing.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

It's tricky to ask a filmmaker to explain his own work; usually we're the least qualified to make sense of what we've done, unfortunately, because of the tunnel vision required to create anything over four years.