Quotes About Priorities

The most important principle that an executive must embrace is a desire to produce results. As obvious as this sounds, it is not universally practiced by the highest-ranking executives in many companies. Many CEOs put something ahead of results on their list of priorities, and it represents the most dangerous of all the temptations: the desire to protect the status of their careers.

2. What is your family's top priority—rallying cry—right now?

for a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money.

The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.

People who really believe that they can't afford the time to train don't have their priorities right. Given the benefits to your health, strength and life in general, you need to ask yourself whether you can afford not to train!

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing that they have is money.

It takes a while to become one of God's Good Women, and in the process you learn that you can't avoid every mistake or please everyone. There simply isn't time to be that uptight and rigid. God designed limits to your time, treasure, and talents so you wouldn't squander your life away. Recognizing your limited time here on earth can motivate you to say, "Good-bye, perfectionism, I don't have time for you!

A hunter-gatherer's needs are few, but a Western citizen expects a car, paved streets, hot water on demand, airports, sewer lines, phone service, a refrigerator, computer, microwave, and a PlayStation... as a start.

wonder if anyone in the world works harder at anything than American school kids work at popularity. Navy SEALS and neurosurgery residents seem slackers by comparison.

If you want to create wealth (in the narrow technical sense of not starving), then you should be especially skeptical about any plan that centers on things you like doing.

Look, we've seen this over and over again—three times since 1980. Republicans rail against budget deficits when they're out of power, then drop all their concerns and send the deficit soaring once they are in a position to cut taxes. Then when it's the Democrats' turn, they're expected to clean up the Republicans' red ink rather than address their own priorities. Enough already.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Every person has short-term goals. Some are modest, such as setting aside money for a vacation next month or paying for medical bills. Other short-term goals are more ambitious, such as accruing funds for a down payment to purchase a new home within six months. Whatever the expense or purchase, you need a predictable accumulation of cash soon. If this sounds like your situation, stay away from the stock market!

School chasers, on the other hand, will have stunning résumés but are functionally illiterate in their fields and are often socially inept. Much of the time, they put so much energy in getting certificates, they never do their job, or their entire focus is spent on getting the "slot," that they never have a chance to develop their team. Further, if they are always in school, they are never home to pass the knowledge on and develop their teams.

Who cares for your fashions and your wars and your causes? I will shortly be gone and I have seen many fashions come and go and many causes so passionately defended only to be forgotten.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

One day you will wake up & there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

Even worse are those people who say: I'm happy because I'm sacrificing my life for those I love. And do you think that people who love us want to see us suffering for their sakes? Do you tink that love is a source of suffering? To be honest, yes Well, it shouldn't be

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing they have is money.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.

We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.