Quotes About Planning

Things don't always go as planned, but it's when you make a plan out of the unplanned and make the best of the unlikely things In life.

Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.

Preparation position you for prosperity.

Success is when you can differentiate between Today and Tomorrow.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

I believe that 99 percent of what anyone does can effectively be postponed.

you must work toward the Four Necessities: jewelry, furniture, a seasonal contract with a stipend, and a comfortable retirement.

You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz.

I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.

The benefit of thinking you will die at fifty is that it can spur you to accomplish a lot of things at a young age, which is what I have attempted to do, but now the prospect of living longer makes me uncertain about the plans I've made.

Plan what you want to say. Write an outline. Then ask yourself, Does this get across whatever I'm trying to say? Refine it until it does.

but how are you going to get the rocks into her pack without her seeing?' 'I'm not going to put the rocks in her pack,' I say. 'You are.' 'Me?' says Danny. 'What

With her children in the backyard, and her foot taped, Grace stands at the kitchen counter with a pencil and a pad of paper. She knows from long experience that sometimes a list is the only way from one side to the other.

There was something about a wedding. No matter how much you put into it, you could always put in more. There was always someone else you could call, some other question you could ask, something else you could buy. You could put every worry, every desire, every whim, every moment of your waking day into a wedding, and it was big enough to absorb them all.

Mary Anne schedules our baby-sitting jobs.

There's more good news," Kristy said. "I hate to say this, but I'm afraid we're going to have to cancel the winter carnival.

JIM WALTON: "Dad always said you've got to stay flexible. We never went on a family trip nor have we ever heard of a business trip in which the schedule wasn't changed at least once after the trip was underway. Later, we all snickered at some writers who viewed Dad as a grand strategist who intuitively developed complex plans and implemented them with precision. Dad thrived on change, and no decision was ever sacred.

the best way to reduce paying estate taxes is to give your assets away before they appreciate.

One way I've managed to keep up with everything on my plate is by coming in to the office really early almost every day, even when I don't have those Saturday numbers to look over. Four-thirty wouldn't be all that unusual a time for me to get started down at the office. That early morning time is tremendously valuable: it's uninterrupted time when I think and plan and sort things out. I write my letters and my articles for Wal-Mart World, our company newsletter.

A word of explanation is necessary to those who fear setting up a schedule because it feels rigid and stifling. Scheduling is not an inflexible list that is written in stone. It is a statement of what regular tasks are important to accomplish each day and when you plan to do them during the day. As you become experienced in using and tweaking your schedule, you will find it meets your needs more and more successfully and will become your friend. (pp. 163-164).

Here is a secret good thing: Sometimes I like journal writing at school because I can remind myself of things I might forget when I'm a grown-up. Like that I plan to smoke cigars. And I do not plan to get married. Cigars, yes; husband, no. What if I forget these things?

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.