Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

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

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

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.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

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

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

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.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

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.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

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

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‚No. No, I’m finished. Bye.‘ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

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

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

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.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

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

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

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

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

What one has to do usually can be done.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

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.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

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

All great achievements require time.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

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

Action expresses priorities.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.