Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it’s going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you’ll never see it.

We must use time creatively.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Short cuts make long delays.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

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

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

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Energy begets energy.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

The Internet is a big distraction.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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

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

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

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.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I like to work.

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

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

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

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

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

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

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 cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?