Quotes About Prioritization

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third - ultimately that's in the best interest of customers and shareholders.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

B ooks are infinite in number and time is short The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential Take that and try to live up to it

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you?

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

If you don't invest in you, you'll soon find that no one else will, either.

I'd rather you waste my money than waste my time.

Women: We are busy wearing so many hats in life we deserve to have all the shoes we want.

Beware the hobby that eats.

The man who stops advertising to save money is the man who stops the clock to save time.

Pile up enough tomorrows and you'll end up with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.