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

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Time is the least thing we have of.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

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.

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.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

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.

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

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

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

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

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

Lost time is never found again.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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

Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it’s twice the efficiency of a Prius.

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

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

One today is worth two tomorrows.

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

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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.