You may delay, but time will not.

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

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

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.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

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

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

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

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

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.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

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

When asked, ‚How do you write?‘ I invariably answer, ‚one word at a time.‘

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

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

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

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.

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

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

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.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

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

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

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

I often work by avoidance.

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.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

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.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

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

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

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

Delay is preferable to error.

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

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

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.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

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?

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

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.

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.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.