No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

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

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

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

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

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

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.

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

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

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

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.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

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

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.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

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.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

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

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

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

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

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

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

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

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

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

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Well begun is half done.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

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

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

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.

Never confuse motion with action.

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

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

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!