Quotes About Planning

ideation without execution is mere delusion

Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation and action

She told me that the best time to plant a tree was forty years ago. The second best time is today.

life favors the prepared mind.

quien fracasa en la planificación, planifica su fracaso.

Pre-Performance Blueprint. This is simply a written statement of your ideal day ahead. Researchers confirm that pre-commitment strategies work beautifully to increase your focus and discipline to get things done.

Un tiempo bien organizado es la señal más clara de una mente bien organizada. SIR ISAAC PITMAN

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind. Sir Isaac Pitman

luck is nothing but combination of preparation and oppurtinity

Yes, John. Step one is to have a clear vision of your outcome. Step two is to create positive pressure to keep you inspired. The third step is a simple one: never set a goal without attaching a timeline to it.

believe that life favors the prepared mind.

Murad muttered that everything had to wait till he was older, and at this rate there would be so much piled up for him to do, there would be no time for it all.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN

Things seldom happened accidentally to George Washington, but he managed them with such consummate skill that they often seemed to happen accidentally. By 1775 he had a fine sense of power—how to gain it, how to keep it, how to wield it.

To form a new government requires infinite care and unbounded attention, for if the foundation is badly laid, the superstructure must be bad.

a general marches at the head of his troops," so should wise politicians "march at the head of affairs, insomuch that they ought not to wait the event to know what measures to take, but the measures which they have taken ought to produce the event.

For five weeks in November and December 1798, he conferred in Philadelphia with Washington, who made his first resplendent return to the capital in twenty months, appearing in uniform on horseback. Charles C. Pinckney and Secretary of War McHenry joined the planning sessions.

Hamilton sketched out this phantom force in microscopic detail, producing comprehensive charts for regiments, battalions, and companies. In a typical passage, Hamilton was to write, "A company is subdivided equally into two platoons, a platoon into two sections and a section into two squads, a squad consisting of four files of three or six files of two."89 He assigned ranks to officers, set up recruiting stations, stocked arsenals with ammunition, and drew up numerous regulations.

We will let it simmer" was a saying John employed throughout his business career.

Revising objectives is smart because it stops you throwing good money after bad.

The tall one sets the strategy, and the fat one works the angles. In

screaming at myself to listen to what I'd learned through thirteen hard years. The shorter the time, the cooler you've got to be. If you've only got one shot, you've got to make it count. You can't afford to miss because you screwed up the planning. Or because you ran out of blood sugar and got sick and dizzy in the small hours of the morning. So I forced the eggs down and drank

I hadn't figured that out yet. When you're stuck with a plan full of holes, more have a habit of appearing.

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.