The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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?

Lost time is never found again.

The future is purchased by the present.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

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.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

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.

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.

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.

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

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

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

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

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

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

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.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

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

We must use time creatively.

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

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

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

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.

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

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

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.

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?‘

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!‘

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

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

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

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.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

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

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

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