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the art of making other people wait less so they can respect you more.
means the habit of arriving or delivering exactly when you said you would, no earlier drama, no later excuses.
from from latin punctum, a point — originally about hitting an exact point in time, the same root that gave us puncture and point, because being late was basically a small violence to the schedule.
royal insultlouis xiv called punctuality the politeness of kings.
train originrailways standardized clocks worldwide to keep timetables honest.
cultural variancegermany and japan treat lateness as near moral failure.