Quotes about Priorities

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich."

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Yet somehow it's still frequently seen as heroic to sacrifice yourself, your health, and even your ability to do your job just to prove your loyalty to THE MISSION. Fuck the mission. No mission (in business, anyway) is worthy of such dire personal straits.

In the end, it's not worth paying much attention to the competition anyway. Why not? Because worrying about the competition quickly turns into an obsession.