William Howard Taft Quotes

My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

Over the years I have heard all the psychological analysis which says that habitually tardy people are narcissists and I don't buy it. I'm late because I am always trying to do one more thing for my family before I leave the door.

A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

I wish I had a typical workday. I struggle to get up at seven and almost always fail. I just try to get to my office as soon as I can, but it's always later than I would like.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

I am working never to be late again.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.