Quotes about Priorities

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.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...

He had no desire to marry at all—that had been the whole truth of it till he met Undine Spragg. And now—

No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.

My wants are what concern me. That's where the battle must be fought.

When you have to manage the world, please everyone, earn more than you did last year, and work off five pounds, you will be driven. If not, you run the risk of being un-American or even un-Christian because our economy and churches rely on such people. Even when paralyzed by circumstances, a stressed person is a driven person.