Quotes About Planning

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.

As Eisenhower said (in a very different context to be sure, but the point applies here as well), "plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

De Alejandro el platónico, el no repetir a menudo y sin necesidad, sea de viva voz, sea por escrito, que estoy muy ocupado; y no rechazar así, sistemáticamente, los deberes que las relaciones sociales imponen, pretextando un agobio de quehaceres.

and to foresee things a long way off

12. From Alexander the Platonist, not to say to anyone often or without necessity, nor write in a letter, I am too busy, nor in this fashion constantly plead urgent affairs as an excuse for evading the obligations entailed upon us by our relations towards those around us.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.

She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.

Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.