From Management Briefs, published by Rogers, Slade & Hill, Management Consultants of New York City, come these ten ways to use those otherwise-wasted quarter-hours.

1.       Talk less (and watch less the TV programs unworthy of your maturity. Watch more, if you please, the good ones; if you can’t sleep, read.

2.       Carry a book in your bag (your brief case, your topcoat pocket).

3.       Put a book under your pillow at night; if you can’t sleep, read.

4.       Wake up 15 minutes earlier every morning, and read.

5.       Keep a book handy to pick up (at home, when waiting for the dinner; at the office for waits between engagements, or for long-distance phone calls to come through).

6.       Have a book ready when meeting unpunctual people (or waiting for meetings to get under way).

7.       Take along your own book when going to the dentist or doctor (or an appointment with the man who may keep you waiting 15 to 45 minutes in his anteroom). Why read their old magazines?

8.       Keep an unread book in your car in case of traffic jams or a wait for repairs (or a wait for you wife to do her shopping).

9.       Never go on a journey in a public conveyance without a book.