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

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Life well spent is long.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

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.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

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.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

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.

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

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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.

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

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Time is money.

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

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

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

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.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

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

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.