Quotes About Prioritization

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

I like to work as little as possible to make the most money possible.

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.

I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.

Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.

If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

I'm not scheduling my entire life to death in order to be able do the work I've got to do. So at the moment I'm quite happy.