I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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

All great achievements require time.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

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

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

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

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

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

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

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

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

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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.

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

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

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

You may delay, but time will not.

We must use time creatively.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

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

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

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

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

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

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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

While we are postponing, life speeds by.