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Source: Castle Series, House of Many Ways (2008), p. 57.

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Variant: If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.

In response to being asked by David Gilmour what he was up to lately during an unexpected reunion in 1975, as written in Nick Mason's Inside Out

In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone (1931); as quoted in Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James Newton, p. 31.