Quotes About Planning

Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live 20 more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long?

The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can get permitted quickly and get building quickly.

You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.

My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?

As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that's radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I'm still just playing a good bit.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

Tell a woman it's going to rain, and she'll get out the umbrellas. Well, in the matter of money, there's always the chance of rain ahead.

Nothing is promised for long or forever, so you have to put something away for rainy days. Especially when you got kids.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

I'm not philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age... I accept the fact that I may have to raise my retirement age for that.

We can all admit this - women do it better when it comes to planning and shot calling, running households, raising kids.

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.

I'm a futures man.

People care about their financial futures, and politics is very much a part of that.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

I'm always a big-picture kind of gal. I always think in the long term, and I like to see things through from beginning to end in my head.

I don't want to put my game plan out there for everybody to see it and read it and teams can scheme. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

Every fighter has to go in there with a game plan.

At the end of the game, coaches always talk about what could have been done differently with the game plan.

I guess my game plan in ODI cricket is very set with the new ball and at the death. In Test cricket, you have to bowl longer and batsmen don't have to score as quickly. But at the same time, as a bowler, you can bring in some aspects of one format to the other format.

Be smart, fight smart and stick to the game plan.

Anything Jermaine Dupri does is done strategically. He knows what he's doing. He's a genius.

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.