title: Alan Lakein
text: Alan Lakein was an American author on personal time management, including How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life which has sold over 3 million copies.
  
  Lakein graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School and  resided in Santa Cruz, California.
  
  Lakein is credited for several quotes, including "Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life." He is credited as the creator of Lakein's question: "What is the best use of my time right now?".  He has also made management films and training films.
  
  Former U.S. President Bill Clinton started his autobiography, "My Life", with a reference to the book:
  
  Books
   Alan Lakein, How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (1973, New American Library, New York City; )
   Alan Lakein, Give Me a Moment and I'll Change Your Life: Tools for Moment Management (1997 Andrews & McMeel, Kansas City, MO; )
   It's About Time & It's About Time (1975)
  
  References
  
  American self-help writers
  Living people
  Harvard Business School alumni
  Johns Hopkins University alumni
  Year of birth missing (living people)