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“I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.”

“Always begin with the end in mind.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”

“Begin with the end in mind.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

“A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)”

“Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”