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

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

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

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 myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

We must use time creatively.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

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.

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

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

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

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

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.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Computers make me totally blank out.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

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

I don’t do meetings.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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.

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.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

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

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

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

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.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Energy begets energy.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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.