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

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

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.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Friends are thieves of time.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

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.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

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.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

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

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

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

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

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Nature does nothing in vain.

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

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

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Short cuts make long delays.

Better never than late.

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.

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

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.

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.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

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

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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

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.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

I saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking‘, but I don’t have that much time.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

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

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.

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

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.