Better never than late.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

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

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

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

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.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

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

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.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

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

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Friends are thieves of time.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

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.

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.

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

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

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.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I always have to be writing.

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.

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

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.

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

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

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.

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 often work by avoidance.

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

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

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

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

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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

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.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

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

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