Resign from Everything When Time Becomes the Priority

“At the time he was on seven different boards and in one day he resigned from all of them, including Sky, and pledged that only in exceptional circumstances would he ever sit on another. It had been flattering to be invited on to boards but he had not always felt like he contributed and the commitment was time-consuming.”

“‘It took Mike’s death and that moment on the plane for me to realise that the most valuable thing that each of us has is not money, is not cars, is not assets—it’s time. But none of us knows how much of it we have. None of us knows what will happen tomorrow and given the most valuable thing we have is time, then how we use it is important and, to me, the most important thing in my life is my family.’”