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.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

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.

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

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

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On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

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

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

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

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

I like to work and am a focused person.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I love being busy.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

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

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I always have to be writing.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

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.

Energy begets energy.

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

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Lost time is never found again.

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.

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.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

Beware the hobby that eats.

I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.