You may delay, but time will not.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I always have to be writing.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

He that rises late must trot all day.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

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.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

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

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

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?