Quotes About Priorities

The most important thing about priorities and posteriorities is not intelligent analysis but courage.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

The job is, however, not to set priorities. That is easy. Everybody can do it. The reason why so few executives concentrate is the difficulty of setting "posteriorities"—that is, deciding what tasks not to tackle—and of sticking to the decision.

Setting a posteriority is also unpleasant. Every posteriority is somebody else's top priority. It is much easier to draw up a nice list of top priorities and then to hedge by trying to do "just a little bit" of everything else as well. This makes everybody happy. The only drawback is, of course, that nothing whatever gets done.

I saw no point in being the richest man in the cemetery.

People, I realized, were what I valued, and I saw no point in being the richest man in the cemetery.

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.

You have to keep your priorities straight, if you plan to do well in stocks.

Putuskan apa yang kau inginkan, dan berusahalah untuk menjadikannya kenyataan. Jangan sampai kau lupa hidup karena terlalu sibuk bermimpi

If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need.

If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need. Around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than you paid for that drink.

If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life and God shows up in it, and then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what is more important to you–the dream or him.

I found myself pondering the specific Christian American obsession with abortion and gay rights. For million of Americans, these are the great societal sins of the day. It isn't bogus wars, systemic poverty, failing schools, child abuse, domestic violence, health care for profit, poorly paid social workers, under-funded hospitals, gun saturation, or global warming that riles or worries the conservative, Bible-believers of America. pg33

If you'll remember, helping people was one of the two basic things Fat has been told long ago to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channeled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.

That goat," Rachael said. "You love the goat more than me. More than you love your wife, probably. First the goat, then your wife, then last of all—" She laughed merrily. "What can you do but laugh?

If you'll remember, helping people was one of the two basic things Fat has been told long ago to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channeled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.

you can make a fortune selling people what they want, but you can go broke selling them what they need.

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

We are fighting the greatest war the world has ever seen, and our likely future is death and ruins, and you are thinking about a women you love, instead of making battle plans. If this is what love can do to a man, perhaps you were better off without it. He smiled to himself. I do not believe that, he thought.

No one was going to be looking for us; they were all too busy with more serious problems.

It wasn't just a choice between Earth and the stars because that's a no-brainer. That part was easy. The hard part was that Dad was asking us to choose between him and Mom.

I am keeping my powder dry for a political system that will improve my golf game, my blues piano licks and my cooking. Until them, please keep the political scum in your yard. Thank you.

Is it better for you to have what you have now, this opportunity in another country, or is it better for you to be with the people who will always love you no matter what?