I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

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.

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

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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.

Lost time is never found again.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

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

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

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

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

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

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

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.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I don’t do meetings.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

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.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

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

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

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

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Action expresses priorities.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.