Brian Tracy Quotes

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

You have to ruthlessly prioritize.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

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

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.

When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.