There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

I don’t do meetings.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Time is bunk.

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

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Friends are thieves of time.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

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.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

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

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

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

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

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!

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

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

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

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.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

All great achievements require time.

I saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking‘, but I don’t have that much time.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

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

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than 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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

He that rises late must trot all day.

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