We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

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

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

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

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

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.

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

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

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

We must use time creatively.

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

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

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

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

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Always do whatever’s next.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

You may delay, but time will not.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

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

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

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

I’ve never had writer’s block.

I often work by avoidance.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

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

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.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

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

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

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

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.

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

Short cuts make long delays.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

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