Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

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

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

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

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

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

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

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

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

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.

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

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

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

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.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

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

Computers make me totally blank out.

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

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

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

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

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

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

I have wasted my hours.

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