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

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Money ain’t everything.

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

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

Order is heaven’s first law.

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

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

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

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

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

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.

I’m pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I’m not dirty.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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.

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

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

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

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

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.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

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

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

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.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

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.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

Service of any type requires preparation.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

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.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

I like to work and am a focused person.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

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

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.