Quotes About Priorities

He's a little plump for my taste, but I always say a man can't be too fat if enough gold comes with it.

but he never did seem to get around to reading the books he meant to read.

How could a merchant lead people? Did not merchants have to focus on their wares? It was ridiculous.

He could not waste time worrying over problems he could do nothing about.

Adalet arayan bir adam?n kararl?l??? hafife al?nacak, görmezden gelinecek bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir. Bununla birlikte, kendini bir kenara koyup daha önemli ÅŸeyleri görmenin de bir zaman? vard?r.

gallop could not take him away from his own thoughts. Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. So many duties. Egwene. The Horn. Fain. Mat and his dagger. Why can't there just be one at a time? I have to take care of all of them. Oh, Light, Egwene!

Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

Rich dad thought it best to go broke before 30. You still have time to recover.

La mayoría de la gente está tan ocupada trabajando para conseguir un cheque de nómina, que no tiene tiempo para volverse rica.

La mayoría de la gente está tan ocupada, que no tiene tiempo para volverse rica.

nearly every time Moseley and Air Force Secretary Mike Wynne came to see me, it was about a new bomber or more F-22S. Both were important capabilities for the future, but neither would play any part in the wars we were already in.

The important thing to remember is that in any public or private sector organization, whether it has three million employees or three, having a clearly defined and achievable vision—or set of goals—and getting the priorities right in moving forward are the preconditions for successfully leading change. After all, as Yogi Berra said, "If you don't know where you're going, you will wind up somewhere else.

we had our hands full with the wars we were already in without looking for new ones.

When you get to heaven, will you look back on this earth and regret how much treasure you laid up here instead of sending it on ahead to heaven?

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

The only difference between a rich person and a poor person is what they do in their spare time . . . When at work, work hard, but remember that what you do after work with your pay cheque and your spare time will determine your future.

So whenever I hear people focusing on their I-don't-wants, rather than what they do want, I know the noise in their head must be loud. Chicken Little has taken over their brain and is yelling, "The sky is falling, and toilets are breaking!" So they avoid their don't-wants, but they pay a huge price. They may never get what they want in life. Instead of analyzing, their inner Chicken Little closes their mind.

I talk about freedom from the Rat Race, and they focus on toilets. That is the thought pattern that keeps most people poor. They criticize instead of analyze.

I think of money only as a medium of exchange. In reality, money by itself has very little value. So as soon as I have money, I want to exchange it for something of real value. The irony is that many people who cling desperately to money spend that money on things of very little value—and that is why they are poor.

Most people fail to realize that in life, it's not how much money you make. It's how much money you keep.

They ask me, "Can you tell us how to make more money?" They don't understand that their trouble is really how they choose to spend the money they do have.

Yo les estoy hablando de liberarse de la Carrera de la Rata y ellos se enfocan en inodoros. Este es el tipo de esquema de pensamiento que mantiene a tanta gente pobre. Critican en lugar de analizar.

Schoolteachers really don't think about being rich. We just like to teach.

Con frecuencia, la gente que sigue diciendo No quiero reparar inodoros se niega a sí misma la oportunidad de aprovechar este vigoroso vehículo de inversión. Al parecer, los inodoros resultan más importantes que su libertad.