He that rises late must trot all day.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

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

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

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

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.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

Well begun is half done.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

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

I am results-oriented.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

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

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

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.

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

I’ve never had writer’s block.

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.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

I saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking‘, but I don’t have that much time.

Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it’s twice the efficiency of a Prius.

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

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

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.

The future is purchased by the present.

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

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

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.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

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

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.