There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‚How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?‘

No one saw the recession coming.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.