Quotes About Prioritization

Humanity comes first. Always. Politics and religion, valuable as they are, are always of second importance. If we do not work together to preserve life, to treasure it and keep it safe, then nothing we fight for is worth having.

Your phone is not your problem. The problem is when we let our phone captivate us so significantly with the unimportant that we ignore the important all around us.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

The thing about people who work in finance is that they consider their job infinitely more important than anything or anyone, and so it's perfectly legitimate to tell everyone else to fuck off because they have a conference call with Dubai.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

adolescente, que aún no está acostumbrado a renunciar —no sabe decir no—, quiere abarcar demasiadas cosas y se dispersa, y la dispersión es la mejor manera de no avanzar, por pérdida de energías.

Lo primero que necesitamos para ir domando la voluntad es ser capaces de renunciar a la satisfacción que nos produce lo urgente, lo que pide paso sin más.

The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours.

Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.

When in doubt, simplify.

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."2

Only 5 percent of entrepreneurship is the big idea, the business model, the whiteboard strategizing, and the splitting up of the spoils. The other 95 percent is the gritty work that is measured by innovation accounting: product prioritization decisions, deciding which customers to target or listen to, and having the courage to subject a grand vision to constant testing and feedback.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

No es suficiente con pedir a los traabajadores que se esfuercen más. Nuestros problemas actuales están provocados por esforzarnos demasiado en las cosas equivocadas

which of our efforts are value-creating and which are wasteful?

As Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."2

As Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

managers in most companies are already overwhelmed with good ideas. Their challenge lies in prioritization and execution,

focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work.