The biggest excuse people make about why they can’t be innovative is the lack of time. Really?
1. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey MacKay
2. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” – Stephen Covey
3. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.'” – Lao Tzu
4. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown
5. “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein
6. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”- Abraham Lincoln
7. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
8. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
9. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
10. “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.” – William Shakespeare
11. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn
12. “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” – Henry David Thoreau
13. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” – Henry Van Dyke
14. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Ben Franklin
15. “All my possessions for a moment of time.” – Queen Elizabeth
16. “What may be done at any time will be done at no time.” – Scottish proverb
17. “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers
18. “The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.” – Leo Kennedy
19. “Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” – Lord Chesterfield
20. “I am definitely going to take a course on time management — just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” – Louis Boone