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

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

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.

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

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

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

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

I always have to be writing.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

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.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

I like to work and am a focused person.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

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

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.

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

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

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?

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

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.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

I like to work.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

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

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

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.

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

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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