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.

I just don’t have time to get old!

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

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.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Success is the child of audacity.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

Lost time is never found again.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

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

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

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.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

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

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

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.

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

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

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

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

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

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.