Jeff Bezos Quotes

If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.

What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.

We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.

Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.

My time is really important to me, and where I put it has to be of tremendous value.

You only have so much time in the day, and you only have so many working years. Where do you want to invest that life?

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.

Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

The small day-to-day decisions will determine the course of your lives.

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.