If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

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

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

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.

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

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

I love being busy.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

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

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.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

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

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

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

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.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

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.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

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

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

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

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

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

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.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

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

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

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

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

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

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I often work by avoidance.