Time is money

1. If we don't use our working time to earn money, we are in effect losing money.

Idioms and Phrases

One's time is a valuable commodity, as in I can't stay home and wait any longer; time is money, you know. This proverbial term goes back to one first recorded in 1572, time is precious, in a discourse on usury.

Example Sentences

According to Mrs. Clarke, who reported on the whole situation to Penelope, the admiral grumbled and said, “I’ll wait if I must, but time is money, dear. I need to have more ostriches shipped from Africa as soon as possible, before the bad weather sets in. Wouldn’t want our future champions to be shipwrecked on some unmapped island somewhere and get eaten by cannibals!”

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Time is money, and project opponents soon realized that they could use this uncertainty to their advantage.

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In the export business, time is money.

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She is also set to host a new "high-stakes" quiz show on ITV called Time Is Money.

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"The disheartening indifference and stupidity of the public, led by stupid municipal and other governing bodies, who prate about practical work, but are incapable of appreciating the depth of the meaning of the English adage 'time is money'."

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