In his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin describes his rule of Order: “every part of my business should have its allotted time.” One page of his little book held a “scheme of employment for the twenty-four hours of a natural day.” He rose at five. He worked from eight to eleven and from two to five. From twelve to one he read or looked over his accounts, and dined.
Franklin admits that Order “gave me the most trouble.” A master of a business, he wrote, “must mix with the world, and often receive people of business at their own hours.”