❝ I go to bed early, I get up early, I like to putter in the mornings, I like to read the newspaper, I like to have coffee, I like to have breakfast with my kids before they go to school. So I have my kind of puttering time is very important to me.

I go to bed early, I get up early, I like to putter in the mornings, I like to read the newspaper, I like to have coffee, I like to have breakfast with my kids before they go to school. So I have my kind of puttering time is very important to me. And so that's why I set my first meeting for 10 o'clock. I like to do my high IQ meetings before lunch, like anything that's going to be really mentally challenging, that's a 10 o'clock meeting. And because by 5pm, I'm like, I can't think about that today. Let's try this again tomorrow at 10am. And for me, I need to go to sleep. I think better, I have more energy, my mood is better, all these things. And think about it, as a senior executive, you get paid to make a small number of high quality decisions. Your job is not to make thousands of decisions every day. Is that really worth it if the quality of the decisions might be lower because you're tired or grouchy or any number of things?

– Jeff Bezos