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.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

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

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

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.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Better never than late.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

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.

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

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.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

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.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

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.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

Energy begets energy.

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

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

We must use time creatively.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.

I always have to be writing.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

We live in ugly times.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Delay is preferable to error.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.