Quotes About Priorities

The bottom line is that we think we work to pay the bills—but we spend more than we make on more than we need, which sends us back to work to get the money to spend to get more stuff—that sends us back to work again!

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

Money is something you trade your life energy for. You sell your time for money. It doesn't matter that Ned over there sells his time for a hundred dollars and you sell yours for twenty dollars an hour. Ned's money is irrelevant to you. The only real asset you have is your time. The hours of your life.

How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world

Money is something we choose to trade our life energy for.

put your life in service to your values rather than putting your time in service to money.

We have devalued the price of the things we need most to survive on a daily basis yet overvalued many of the things we can live without.

You'll flatten your debt and develop a natural resistance to spending more than you have for things you don't want to impress people you don't like (to paraphrase Robert Quillen).

What's really important in life Sitting on a beach Looking a television eight hours a day I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.

How sick I am of thinking about money all the time. It's like and hideous disease destroying energy...contentment...joy... (...) It's depressing how money is always at the beginning and end of things.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object.

I'm not a big one on - I don't know what to call it - getting all glamorous. I don't really worry about my looks, and I don't worry about getting old. Exterior beauty doesn't mean a lot to me.

If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

At the end of the day, I'm Violet's mom, and I want the best for her.

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.