#Priorities Quotes

“My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.”

“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“Money often costs too much.”

“Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.”

“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

“Take a Deep Breath & Focus on What's Really Important.”

“One ought to be just before one is generous”

“Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.”

“Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, 'I wish I had', or 'I'm glad I did.'”

“U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.”

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”

“Do I want to be right or be happy?”

“While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.”

“The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.”

“Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.”

“money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen”

“So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.”

“Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.”

“There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.”

“The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.”

“Success must never be measured by how much money you have.”

“Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.”

“If you don't have time to invest in a goals program is it possible that you don't have time because you don't have a goals program?”

“Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.”

“Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success.”

“Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.”

“Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.”

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”

“So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.”

“The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.”

“A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.”

“Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.”

“That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.”

“The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.”

“Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.”

“I still love coming home, but home is where the heart is. I take those whom I love most with me. That's my number one. My number two is being ready.”

“When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.”

“That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.”

“Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.”

“We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?”

“Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.”

“When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?”

“Your friends, family, and kids have to understand that's your priority. It's the only way you can be successful.”

“I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.”

“Let there be worse cotton and better men.”

“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”

“Time is the capital of your life, so spend it wisely.”

“When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.”

“When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.”

“I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.”