Priorities Quotes

"Our first duty is to do our work well, and our second is to help others."

"You should have a checklist. You need to prioritize the risks you are willing to take."

"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."

"One should always keep a record of where every penny goes."

"Simplicity has a way of improving performance by enabling us to better understand what we are doing."

"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."

"I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines."

"He who works all day has no time to make money."

"I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might."

"Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant."

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."

"The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition."

"Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom."

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

"Do not let the small things distract you from the grand design."

"I have a 'too hard' pile and I just keep things out of it. I'm not looking for hard problems to solve."

"Focus on the details, for the details make the whole."

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit—a reputation, character."

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

"The major priority of any business is to serve the public efficiently."

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

"The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting."

"Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed."

"It is very important to remember what you are working for."

"The first rule of a happy life is low expectations."

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."

"I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself."

"I would rather have a large income from a few well-managed sources than a small income from many."

"Waste is the enemy of all progress; we must prioritize its elimination."

"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up."

"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."

"Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing."