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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

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

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.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Short cuts make long delays.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

There isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

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.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

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

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

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.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

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

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

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.

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.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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

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

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.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.