Priority Focus Quotes

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.

I don't believe I should be out running for another office instead of running my office.

When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse.

I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.

I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.

A fundamental principle that I learned in my career, and a principle that my consulting company McChrystal Group helps American civilian companies to adopt, is that winning units and organizations ensure that the time they actually spend - daily, weekly, and yearly - must hew closely to their priorities.

You don't have time to think about things that aren't as important as football and the points that are at stake in the games that we have to win and do well in.

People are most important.

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

The only place that matters is first.

For me, the character I play is most important.

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.

To the extent I can, I try to maintain a laser focus on what needs to get done from a priority standpoint. And not just from an urgency standpoint, but from a value-added standpoint. So where can I add the most value? Where is my time best spent?

Life is too short to talk about the small, unimportant things when you catch the bigger picture.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!

I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

I love long-jumping, and if I'm granted the opportunity without repercussions, then I will pursue it further, but I'm obligated to Buffalo Bills football and that's the main focus.