Quotes About Prioritization

Better ten days of love than years of regretting

there were always five things that needed doing immediately and ten that should have been done yesterday.

a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

Sighing, she sat back down again. "Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

An important distinction is that rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

But I knew damn well that our troops were being burned and blown up in Humvees well before I became secretary and that had they been in MRAPs, many soldiers would have escaped injury or death.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up.

poisonous twentieth-century attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

How's this for a display of human kin selection: Subjects were given a scenario of a bus hurtling toward a human and a nondescript dog, and they could only save one. Whom would they pick? It depended on degree of relatedness, as one progressed from sibling (1 percent chose the dog over the sibling) to grandparent (2 percent) to distant cousin (16 percent) to foreigner (26 percent).55

Sie litten alle unter der Angst, keine Zeit für alles zu haben, und wussten nicht, dass Zeit haben nichts anderes heißt, als keine Zeit für alles zu haben.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Most people fail to realize that in life, it's not how much money you make. It's how much money you keep.

Rule number one in paying yourself first is: Don't get into consumer debt in the rst place.

If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced. Balanced people go nowhere.

Put a lot of your eggs in a few baskets and FOCUS:

The people who must get paid first ultimately get paid the least.

It is secret number three of the rich. That secret is: Mind your own business.

They're busy, and they stay busy as a way of avoiding something they do not want to face.

A person needs to spend more if they want to become rich, but they must know how to spend and what to spend on in order to become rich.

If I pay myself first, I get financially stronger, mentally and fiscally.

Es sólo que yo me pago primero a mí mismo. Incluso antes de pagarle al gobierno.

Es sólo que yo me pago primero a mí mismo. Incluso antes de pagarle al gobierno. Mi columna de activos es más importante que el gobierno.

It is secret number three of the rich. That secret is: Mind your own business. Financial struggle is