Patrick Lencioni Quotes

Never confuse the importance of things with things of importance.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Don't forget that some things count more than other things.

Pay attention to matters of importance.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Above all, discard the irrelevant.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

I don't believe that competitions are important.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

If everything is very important, then nothing is important.