Delay is preferable to error.

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

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

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

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

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

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.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

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

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Short cuts make long delays.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

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

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

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.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Life well spent is long.

I like to work.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Time is the least thing we have of.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

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

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

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

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

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

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

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Beware the hobby that eats.

All great achievements require time.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

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

I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

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

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.