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

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

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.

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

I like to work and am a focused person.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

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

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

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

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.

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.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

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?

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

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.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

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

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

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.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

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.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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.

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

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

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.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

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 love being busy.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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