There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

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.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

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.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

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

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I like to work.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Always do whatever’s next.

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

I just don’t have time to get old!

Time is money.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

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.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

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.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

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

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

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!

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

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.

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

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

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

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

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

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.