As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

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

You are victors, not victims!

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.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

No driver is perfect.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

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

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

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated – but haters are losers. It’s not good to feed this aspect. It’s more intelligent to be constructive.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

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.

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

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.