Quotes About Planning

It takes time to save time.

Next time, involve me in what you're planning. How had I gone so easily from feeling excluded to doing the excluding? Did I dislike the reminder that I hadn't always been on the inside looking out? Was I so relieved to be there that I didn't notice the people who still wanted desperately to be invited in? Had I learned that the only way to be part of a society was to shun its outcasts?

Perhaps the outlook of the social entrepreneurs is best captured in the words of the great city planner and architect Daniel Burnham: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

A man's heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. PROVERBS 16:9 NKJV

You have to trust that God is in control, that He's planned out all of your days, that He knows what's best for you. Instead of fighting where you are, learn to embrace where you are.

Programmers and software engineers who dive into code without writing a spec tend to think they're cool gunslingers, shooting from the hip. They're not. They are terribly unproductive. They write bad code and produce shoddy software, and they threaten their projects by taking giant risks which are completely uncalled for.

Kinas övergång till kapitalism var med andra ord ett resultat av gräsrötternas initiativ och mod. Det fanns ingen plan för det – allt som gjorde Kina rikt hände utanför femårsplanerna.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stands on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed."

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

He carefully studies the position that he intends to conquer.

When you break life down, it's about 100% time management.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.