Quotes About Prioritization

I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.

Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.

What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

Music always gets bumped until I have some time to get around to it.

I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.

I grew up drumming but had to put it on the back burner because of basketball.

I don't mind being busy.

I don't want to start producing dressing gowns and cuff links with the Purdey name stamped on them. Making Purdey the leading gunmaker is our priority. Once we have succeeded in doing that, then we might look at some accessories, but it is a long haul.

People don't understand this: if you want to have a really good shot at succeeding, there are doors you have to slam in people's faces and say, 'This is my priority, and you can't depend on me to help you.' I was never good at that.

To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

In private companies that are successful, the management have learnt to put their staff first, customers second, shareholders last.

Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.

When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

Don't allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say 'no' more often.

If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because the world will suck it up.

Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

That's the thing that has suffered, because I got used to putting so much of my energy into the show and my other businesses, I did not focus on myself as a music artist.

I was going to school nights and it was so demanding of your time that social activities suffered.

I feel like there's a currency to your personal life and your performance - your acting, your work. If that personal life starts to outweigh what the work is, then your work suffers. Your actual performance suffers because the audience won't see the character, they'll see you.

My kids are my priority. Everything else is just sugar on top!

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.