Time is money.

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.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

You may delay, but time will not.

We must use time creatively.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

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

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.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

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

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

I love being busy.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

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.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.

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

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

I always have to be writing.

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

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.

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.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

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.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

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

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

Never mistake motion for action.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

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.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.