A Quote by Stephen Covey

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
American - Educator
October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

No one has more time than you have. It is the discipline and stewardship of your time that is important. The management of time is the management of self; therefore if you manage time with God, he will begin to manage you.

Jill Briscoe

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Stephen Covey

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

Warren Stephens

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

David Allen

There are not many people who understand that creative management is a very different thing than normal management. You don't manage accounts like you manage designers.

Evan Sharp

Time management is the key. Although it seems hectic, as long as you manage your time properly you can get everything done.

John Cena

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

Brian Tracy

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

Peter Drucker

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

Spencer W. Kimball

I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

Gautam Singhania

The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want.

John Kao

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

Christian Bale

The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.

Alfie Kohn

Management must manage!

Harold S. Geneen

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.