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.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

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

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

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

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

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.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

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

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

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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

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

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

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

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

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

I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

When asked, ‚How do you write?‘ I invariably answer, ‚one word at a time.‘

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

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

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

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.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

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

Always do whatever’s next.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

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.

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

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Lost time is never found again.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I often work by avoidance.