It's no coincidence that so many successful people get up early.
The early bird schedule is good for responding to people and events around the world, getting a head start on people in your own time zone, and also finding time for exercise and family. What's more, research shows that early risers tend to be happier and more proactive.
While a late schedule may make sense for some occupations, most people should take notes from the executives and other successful people on this list.
GE CEO Jeff Immelt
Immelt gets up at 5:30 in the morning every day for a cardio workout, during which he reads the papers and watches CNBC, he told Fortune. He claims to have worked 100 hour weeks for 24 straight years.
Xerox CEO Ursula Burns
Burns uses early morning hours to get caught up on emails, getting up at 5:15 and sometimes working until midnight, she told Yahoo Finance.
She also uses the time to stay in shape, scheduling an hour of personal training at 6:00 A.M. twice a week, according to Laura Vanderkam's "What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast."
Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne
Marchionne splits his time between Turin, Italy and Auburn Hills, Mich.
When in the U.S., he gets up at 3:30 in the morning to deal with the European side and still have time for everything else, he told "60 Minutes."
"You and I have lived among workaholics in our day. I have never seen anything like Sergio," Obama "car czar" Steve Rattner said on the show. "When it was a holiday in Italy he'd come to America to work. When it's a holiday in America he goes to Italy to work. Saturdays and Sundays were just workdays to him and for his whole team. And anybody who signed up with Sergio signed up for the program.
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