The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

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!

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

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

Affluence means influence.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

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

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

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.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

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

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

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

I don’t do meetings.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

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

We must use time creatively.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.