Quotes About Prioritization

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well.

No matter how much people want to feel loved, appreciated, and a part of things, they will be lonely until they make a commitment to themselves, a commitment that is so total that they will give up community and love, if necessary, to be fully who they are.

You gotta ignore people until they get in line.

You will always choose the Peaches and Benjis of the world over me because you're loyal to the gentry.

You have to take care of your heart. But at what cost?

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Ce n'est pas possible d'éplucher des pommes de terre et de gratter des carottes en combinaison.

The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

Jane easily shifts among activities—testing for discovery, pinpointing, locating, determining significance, repairing, troubleshooting, and testing to learn. As long as she continues to serve her customers, it doesn't really matter which task she performs at any given time.

Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

We all have 100% to deal with in our lives: 10% is important, 90% unimportant. The secret to a happy, productive life is to deal with the 10% and let the 90% slip.

The groom is so much better for her than her last boyfriend. He's sophisticated, he brings her flowers and candy, he dines by candlelight. Her last boyfriend thought it was enough to spray her name on a fence.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right-it holds my golden time!

Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.