Quotes About Planning

It's best to take a potted plant or flowers already arranged in a vase. Avoid arriving with an unarranged bouquet of flowers, as the host will have to find a vase, trim the stems, and arrange the flowers. This unexpected chore, coupled with answering the door and checking on dinner, can be stressful for even the most seasoned host.

To pay no attention to health of body but only that of soul. To plan day on arising and evening examination of conscience. More spiritual reading...To waste no time. More conscientious about letters, visits, about these records. More charity.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

An adventure is usually the penalty for lousy planning.

Vision without implementation is counterproductive.

After the war, we should think about going into the shrimping business together.

Better to be prepared and not need to be, than not be prepared and regret it.

Luck favors the prepared mind, Major Long," said Li, quoting Louis Pasteur.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

I was planning on this being something worth mentioning, energy invested in someone I saw potential in.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

He who consistently plans each day will journey successfully through all of life's years.

Plans fail, in other words, not because planners ignore common sense, but rather because they rely on their own common sense to reason about the behavior of people who are different from them.

There are also so many more corporations than governments that it's always possible to find success stories, thereby perpetuating the view that the private sector is better at planning than the government sector.

Not everything you plan should reach the neighbour's ears.

The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important.

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.