Quotes About Prioritization

People know how to deal with a desktop intuitively. If you walk into an office, there are papers on the desk. The one on the top is the most important. People know how to switch priority. Part of the reason we model our computers on metaphors like the desktop is that we can leverage this experience people already have.

When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don't matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.

Hertzfeld replied that he needed a couple more days to finish the Apple II product he was in the middle of. "What's more important than working on the Macintosh?" Jobs demanded. Hertzfeld explained that he needed to

al lograr que Apple se centrara en fabricar únicamente cuatro modelos de ordenadores, Jobs salvó la empresa. «Decidir lo que no hay que hacer es tan importante como decidir lo que hay que hacer

Decidir qué es lo que no se debe hacer es tan importante como decidir qué se debe hacer —comentó—. Esto es válido para las empresas y es válido para los productos.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

I could improve your ultimate financial welfare by giving you a ticket with only 20 slots in it so that you had 20 punches—representing all the investments that you got to make in a lifetime. And once you'd punched through the card, you couldn't make any more investments at all. Under those rules, you'd really think carefully about what you did and you'd be forced to load up on what you'd really thought about. So you'd do so much better.

If you buy things you don't need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.

You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything

God's ways with us are all designed to establish in us this other principle, namely, that our work for Him springs out of our ministering to Him. I do not mean that we are going to do nothing; but the first thing for us must be the Lord Himself, not His work.

Don't pole-vault over mouse truds - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!

No dejes que los planes que tienes para ti sean más importantes que tú mismo

Your primary relationship needs to be with yourself, not your family, business, country, culture, or ethnicity.

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

We have three baskets: in, out, and too tough. … We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the "too tough" basket.

Following one good to the end may be catastrophic, not because it isn't a good, but because there are others which can't be sacrificed without evil.

The real cost of something is what you must give up in order to get it, which is almost always more than just cash.

Meanwhile, time is one of our most scarce resources. At the moment, you are reading instead of working, playing with the dog, applying to law school, shopping for groceries, or having sex. Life is about trade-offs, and so is economics.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.