Life is too short to waste on things that don't matter.
You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.
You've got to do things that promote what's important.