I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.

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 stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Every day I pray about all I do.

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.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

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

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.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The Internet is a big distraction.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

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

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

We must use time creatively.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

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.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

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.

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

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I love being busy.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

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

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

Computers make me totally blank out.

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

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

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

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

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

I am results-oriented.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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

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

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

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