I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

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.

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.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Life well spent is long.

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.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

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.

A lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

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

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

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

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

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

I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

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

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

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

I don’t do meetings.

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.

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

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

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.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Time is bunk.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.