Quotes About Prioritization

You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.

Similarly, there are multitudes who lose their lives pondering what they ought to believe, while something lies at their door waiting to be done, and rendering it impossible for him who makes it wait, ever to know what to believe.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others

In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

Still, if you gave me the choice of having any woman you care to name, but I mean any woman, or catching a ten-pound carp, the carp would win every time.

Don't think that I did nothing else. It's only that when you look back over a long period of time, certain things seem to swell up till they overshadow everything else.

If you made a list of Hilda's remarks throughout the day, you'd find three bracketed together at the top—'We can't afford it', 'It's a great saving', and 'I don't know where the money's to come from'.

the belly comes before the soul

A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first.

los gastos que llamamos obligatorios siempre crecen en proporción a nuestros ingresos si no hacemos algo para evitarlo.

A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of the rest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods.

This, then, is the second cure for a lean purse. Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

had I but sought wisdom first, my gold would not have been lost to me.

Therefore, please some good gentlemen, tell me that right name you call man who puts off doing those things that mighty good for him. Procrastinator, called a voice.

You pay to everyone but yourself. Dullard, you labor for others.

The Second Cure — Control Thy Expenditures

what each of us calls our 'necessary expenses' will always grow to equal our incomes

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

ESTE, ENTONCES, ES EL SEGUNDO REMEDIO PARA UNA BOLSA ESCASA. PRESUPUESTA TUS GASTOS PARA QUE TENGAS LAS MONEDAS CON LAS CUALES PAGAR POR TODO LO QUE NECESITAS, PARA PAGAR LO QUE DISFRUTAS Y PARA GRATIFICAR LOS DESEOS QUE VALEN LA PENA, SIN GASTAR MÁS DE NUEVE DÉCIMAS PARTES DE LO QUE GANAS».

how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you can pay out of the rest and still have enough for food and charity and penance to the gods.

Even a Canadian baby with a harelip would be beyond our means.

My problem was not only drinking; it was selfishness. The booze was leading me to put myself ahead of others, especially my family. I loved Laura and the girls too much to let that happen. Faith showed me a way out.

Government should do a few things, and do them right.

Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life. She smiled through her tears. Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first," she said.