Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

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

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

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.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

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

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

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

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

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

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

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

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

I always have to be writing.

Time is the least thing we have of.

I like to work.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

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.

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.

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

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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.

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

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

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

I love being busy.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

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

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Always do whatever’s next.

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