12 Inspirational Quotes About Priorities Place the Important Over the Urgent

Just because something is urgent, it doesn’t mean it’s important. Keep these twelve inspirational quotes about priorities for business leaders handy the next time you find yourself forced to choose between the important and the urgent.

Is It Important – or Just Urgent? Top 12 Quotes About Priorities in the Workplace

Let’s face it, few business leaders suffer from the problem of not having enough to do. Since there is no shortage of tasks you could work on, use these twelve motivational quotes about priorities for the workplace to help you decide which are most important to accomplish.

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

“Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.”
Jack Welch

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving them.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says,
‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
Mary Kay Ash

“Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is based on the most important characteristic, which is trust.”
Howard Schultz

“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”
John D. Rockefeller

“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
Nancy Willard

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
Buddha

“If your project doesn’t work, look for the part that you didn’t think was important.”
Arthur Block

“Any fact facing us it not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.”
Norman Vincent Peale

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie

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