A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Life well spent is long.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

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

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?‘

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

The future is purchased by the present.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

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

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

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

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Mind over mattress.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I sell escapism.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

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

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

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

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

I like to take it easy.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

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.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

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.