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

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

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!

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.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

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

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I always have to be writing.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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.

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

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Of course, I do everything for money.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

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

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

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

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

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.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

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

I do my job like I breathe.

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

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

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

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Friends are thieves of time.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.