Quotes About Preparation

If you're prepared, and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there. —MARK CUBAN

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck." —Anthony Robbins

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

You can also lose everything you've saved and invested. So whatever you put in your Risk/Growth Bucket, you have to be prepared to lose a portion or even all of it if you don't have protective measures in place.

Sometimes we've done all the preparation we could for something; there's nothing else we can do—but we still sit around in fear. This is the point when you must use the antidote to fear: you must make a decision to have faith, knowing you've done all you can to prepare for whatever you're fearing, and that most fears in life rarely come to fruition.

We know we can't sit on the sidelines, on the edge of the riverbank, because inflation will destroy us if we just sit on our cash. So, alongside our neighbors and colleagues, we journey down to the water with trepidation, and when we least expect it: chomp!

Risk comes from not knowing what

an emergency/protection fund. According to a Princeton University–University of Chicago study in 2014, 40% of Americans say they couldn't come up with $2,000 if they needed

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. —MARK TWAIN

Money Power Principle 1. Don't get in the game unless you know the rules!

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. —WARREN BUFFETT

My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. When are you to begin to think about getting married if you don't do it now? I shall never begin to think about it, till I buy my wedding clothes.

How odd that is! We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.

Greystock brought with him two guns, two fishing-rods, a man-servant, and a huge hamper from Fortnum and Mason's.

CHAPTER XXXVII HOW THINGS WERE ARRANGED

Let the Gresham or the Daubeny of the day be ever so sure that the reins of the State chariot must come into his hands, he should not visibly prepare himself for the seat on the box till he has actually been summoned to place himself there

Are you going to take the children back with you?" said the dean. "Yes; Mrs. Robarts has prepared for them." "You can take greater liberties with my friend here than I can." "It is all my sister's doing," said Robarts. "Women are always bolder in such matters than men." And then Lucy reappeared, bringing Bobby with her, and one of the younger children.

He was incapable of anticipating to-morrow's griefs.

It is often said that a secure childhood makes the best foundation for a happy life. In marked contrast to her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart enjoyed an exceptionally cosseted youth. It is left to the judgement of history to decide whether it did, in fact, adequately prepare her for the extreme stresses with which the course of her later life confronted her.

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory.

O camarada Lenis nos ensinou que [...] na guerra dos exércitos, não se pode atingir o objetivo estratégico, que é a destruição do inimigo e a ocupação de seu território, sem ter antes atingido uma série de objetivos táticos, visando a desagregar o inimigo antes de enfrentá-lo em campo aberto.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Rash men wish for dangers beforehand but draw back when they are in them. Brave men are excited at the moment of action, but collected beforehand.

Education is the best provision for old age.