It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

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

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Never confuse motion with action.

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

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.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion – a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long – that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

I don’t do meetings.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

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

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

Better never than late.

You may delay, but time will not.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

We must use time creatively.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

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

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Always do whatever’s next.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Time is bunk.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.