Quotes About Prioritization

The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.

Someone who is reinventing always has spare time. Part of reinvention is collecting little bits and pieces of time and carving them the way you want them to be. That is the Power of No in action: you say no to the superfluous distractions because you must find some time for you.

entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.

You can't get good at something if you are working twenty hours a day. In fact, something is very wrong in your life if that is how much you are working at one thing.

Get Paid, Get Laid, Lose Weight"—because those are the three things people will pay for.

Supply and demand. If you reduce the supply of you by saying no, then the demand for you goes up and you make more money—and have more fun.

If I had a to-do list I might get even more stressed not getting to it. The to-do list becomes my master and I become the slave. One of my themes is "less slavery in my life.

It's important to realize that what's most important is paying attention to the things that are not important.

You can't get good at something if you are working 20 hours a day. In fact, something is very wrong in your life if that is how much you are working at ONE thing.

Always make sure your list is bigger than theirs so you can give up the nickels in exchange for the dimes.

If you're diversified into five businesses, as we once were, the businesses that only make up 3% of your sales are going to take 20% of your time, energy, and attention. It's just not worth it. Focus. Do what you do better than anyone else. And the results will probably be very positive, as they were for us once we decided to concentrate all our efforts on one line of business.

The challenge becomes not opportunity creation, but opportunity selection.

It takes discipline to say "No, thank you" to big opportunities.

If you spend your life keeping your options open, that's exactly what you'll do . . . spend your life keeping your options open.

Practical Discipline #3: Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems.

The problem is not the statistical odds; the problem is that people are squandering their time and resources on the wrong things.

Do first things first—and second things not at all. The alternative is to get nothing done. Peter F. Drucker

Kenneth Atchity, president of Atchity Entertainment International, observed that there is a vital difference between managing time and managing work: work is infinite; time is finite. Work expands to fill whatever time is allotted to it. To be productive, therefore, you must manage your time, not your work. The key question to ask yourself is not "What am I going to do?" but "How am I going to spend my time?

Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems. In

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I'm normally running three to 10 meetings at a time. I just pile them all up. I have no schedule and everybody just kind of meets at the same time. It sometimes makes people who are really important in their minds very uncomfortable because they're used to getting an automatic three hours alone.

I focus on the team and I block out all the outside media stuff, because it's so irrelevant and uncontrollable.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.