I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Delay is preferable to error.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord’s Church and man-made institutions.

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.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

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.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

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

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

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.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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

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

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

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

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

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

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

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

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.‘

The Internet is a big distraction.

Time is bunk.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

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

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

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.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

We must use time creatively.

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

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

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

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.