Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.
Interpretation
Time is extremely valuable and you cannot control or own it.
This quote emphasizes the importance of time as a precious resource that cannot be regained once lost. It suggests that while people often focus on accumulating wealth and material assets, it is time—an intangible asset—that holds true value and influences the quality of our lives.
In practice
During a motivational speech about priorities.
If the pitch starts with a sob story, I'm out. If the pitch talks about personal issues, I'm out. If the pitch starts off with how big the market opportunity is, I'm out. If the pitch tells me what is unique about the product, how it can make a profit, and it's an area where I have expertise, I will read on.
Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.
It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.
I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.
Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences._x000D_ _x000D_ There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend._x000D_ _x000D_ On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.
I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.
Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.
If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
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