A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

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

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Never mistake motion for action.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

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

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

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?

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

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.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

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.

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?

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

I have wasted my hours.

You may delay, but time will not.

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.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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

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

I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

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

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

I love being busy.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Well begun is half done.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

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

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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.

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.

I am results-oriented.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

I like to work.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.