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

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

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

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

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.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

You may delay, but time will not.

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

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

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

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

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

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Most people don’t have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

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

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

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.

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.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

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.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

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

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

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!‘

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.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

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

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

Time is bunk.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

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?

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.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than 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.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.