A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

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

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

I love to clean.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

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

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I don’t care about money.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

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

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

If you can’t eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don’t bring it.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

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.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.

We are not the sum of our possessions.