Busy Man Quotes:

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

- Lin Yutang

topic: Wise, Men, Busy, Busy Man

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.223, Mango Media Inc.

topic: Men, Giving, Work Ethic, Busy Man

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Time, Work, Men, Work To Be Done, Work Well Done

I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.

- Rob Ford

topic: Eye, Men, Trying, Busy Man

A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

- Libba Bray

topic: Farewell, Apology, Men, Rebel Angels, Busy Man

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Men, Visitors, Busy, Busy Man

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

- Andre Gide

topic: Men, Anxiety, Brain, Busy Man

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

- Aristotle

source: Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

topic: Pleasure And Happiness, Busy Man

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Life, Motivational, Wisdom, Busy Man

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Men, Busy, Busy Man

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

- Jacob Braude

source: Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes”

topic: Jobs, Men, Giving, Busy Man

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Writing, Men, Generosity, Letter Writing, Quintessence

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Men, Mind, Study, Busy Man

One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

- Robert McNamara

topic: Faith, Inspiration, Men, Intoxicated, Quiet Desperation

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

- Erwin Chargaff

topic: Truth, Men, Half, Busy Man

I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

topic: Father, Son, Men, Busy Man

After visiting several of America's most fashionable playgrounds, I have reached the conclusion that men who work hard enjoy life most. The men at such places can be divided into two classes, first, busy men of affairs ... and, second, rich loafers. I was impressed by the obvious enjoyment corporation heads and other important executives were deriving from their vacation activities.... The idle rich fellows, on the other hand, although indulging in exactly the same activities, palpably were bored.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Hard Work, Men, Vacation, Loafers, Busy Man

What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.

- Maureen Johnson

topic: Night, Men, Long, Busy Man

As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prarie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I went there frequently to observe their habits.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.105, Gibbs Smith

topic: Running, Dog, Men, Muskrats, Busy Man