Delay is preferable to error.

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.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

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

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

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

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

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

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

I just don’t have time to get old!

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

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.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Time is bunk.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

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

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

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

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.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Energy begets energy.

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?

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

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Better never than late.

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

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

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

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

All great achievements require time.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

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 waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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