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

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

A promise must never be broken.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

I often work by avoidance.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

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!‘

War is the business of barbarians.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

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

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

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

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’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

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.

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

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

Real art has been… what’s the word? Kidnapped? No, that’s not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.