Lost time is never found again.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

Never confuse motion with action.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

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

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Action expresses priorities.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

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

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

A right delayed is a right denied.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

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

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

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.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

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

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Delay is preferable to error.

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

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

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

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

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

You cannot be creative with people around you.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.