“I work a day 12 hours 40 minutes.”

“If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.”

“No one who works 40 hours a week will beat me in a marathon.”

“When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm — spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.”

“I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it.

Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.”

“A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That’s 44% more income for 13% more time.”

“When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing:
--When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men;
--When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.”

“Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.”

“By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“No game is as verbal as baseball; baseball spreads twenty minutes of action across three hours of a day.”