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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything.""

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Denis Waitley Author, Motivational Speaker
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"No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success."

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"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."

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Andrew Weil Author
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"Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy."

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!"

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