I don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

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

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.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

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

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Short cuts make long delays.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

My neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I’m the slowest driver in the world.

I love driving my car on any highway.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Time is money.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

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

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.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.