“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” ~ Stephen King

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.” ~ Tim Ferriss

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” ~ Stephen Covey

“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” ~ Thomas Sowell

“I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: “If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing.” ~ William Pitt Chatham

“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today.” ~ Nolan Bushnel

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” ~ Peter Drucker

“It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about?” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.” ~ Andrew Grove

“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!” ~ Tony Robbins

“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” ~ Dennis Waitley

“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” ~ Oprah Winfrey