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

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

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

I love being busy.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

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

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

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.

I like to work.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

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

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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

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

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

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

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

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

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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 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.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

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

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

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.

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I just don’t have time to get old!

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