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.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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

Energy begets energy.

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

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

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.

Time is the least thing we have of.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Friends are thieves of time.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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

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

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

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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!

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

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.

Lost time is never found again.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

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 secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

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.

What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

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

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

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.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Never mistake motion for action.

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.

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

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

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

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

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.