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.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

New roads; new ruts.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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

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

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

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

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

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.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

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

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

I always have to be writing.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

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.

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.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

To innovate is not to reform.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

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.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

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.

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

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

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

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

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

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

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

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

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.