Quotes About Prioritization

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

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.

I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.

If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.