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

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

He that rises late must trot all day.

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.

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

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.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

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.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

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

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

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

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?

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

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.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

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.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I like to work.

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

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

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.