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

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

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 bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

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!‘

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

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

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.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

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.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

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.

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

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.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

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

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?

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.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

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

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

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.

Time is bunk.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

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.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

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

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

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

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

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

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

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.‘

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

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

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.

No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.