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.

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

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

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.

I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

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.

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.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

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.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

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.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

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

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

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

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

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

Never confuse motion with action.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

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

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

When asked, ‚How do you write?‘ I invariably answer, ‚one word at a 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.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

Delay is preferable to error.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

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

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.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

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

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

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

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.