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

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

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.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

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.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

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.

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

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I am results-oriented.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

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

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

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

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

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.

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.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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.

Action expresses priorities.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Life well spent is long.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

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?

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 always have to be writing.

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

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.

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

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

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

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

No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

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

I have wasted my hours.

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

I like to work.

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.