Quotes About Planning

Set the cart before the horse.

Rome was not built in one day.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it buys the conditions for happiness: time, occasional freedom from constant worry, a moment of breath to plan for the future, and the ability to be generous.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

Conscientious individuals are ruled by their heads. Emotions, urges, whims, or hungers do not often get the best of them.

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

I am an architect of days that have not happened yet.

It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.

What are we asking for? For the ability to answer three simple questions: 'what to change?', 'what to change to?', and 'how to cause the change?' Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager. Think about it. If a manager doesn't know how to answer those three questions, is he or she entitled to be called manager?

You see, whenever there's a hole in a buffer—and I'm not talking about just the work that's supposed to be done on a given day, but the work for two or three days down the road—we go and check in which work center the materials are stuck.

If Ralph can determine a schedule for releasing red-tag materials based on the bottlenecks, he can also determine a schedule for final assembly. Once he knows when the bottleneck parts will reach final assembly, he can calculate backwards and determine the release of the non-bottleneck materials along each of their routes. In this way, the bottlenecks will be determining the release of all the materials in the plant.

Every plan had its flow. But sometimes, living in the future was damned cool. Even if she couldn't get a rocket car.

Three explosions in three days, and not even one of them had been Closs's idea.

As an old crew chief of mine used to point out, you might be dead long before the problem you didn't have the resources to fix right now became a critical need, so why waste more resources worrying about it?

Some things you want to make sure your teammates have access to if anything bad should happen to you.

Really, she was going to have to learn to better organize her time. Maybe she should hire a lifestyle consultant…

By definition 'winging it' is not a plan.

I know now one must plan one's old age as surely as one plans any other stage of life. The tragedy of Cousin Josie's life is that she never knew what she wanted at any age—only what she did not want. She never wanted to marry nor to pursue a career, and in life, unlike grammar, double negatives do not produce an affirmative.

You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early.

Charity knew she had to begin looking for a job soon. Definitely tomorrow, or the next day. Or perhaps the day after that. Charity didn't believe in procrastination. She just needed to plan her strategy. She was sound asleep on the sofa when Lady Margaret got back from London.

Just answer me this, will you? You said you were going to dispose of me. How are you planning to do it?" Master John finished the last thin delicious slice of his pear in a leisurely manner. "I can't tell you," he replied. "That isn't altogether for me to decide. There are various ways to dispose of you. Some you may have thought of already. Others will no doubt occur to you.

When I'd asked her about what she might like to happen after she died, she said, "I plan to die on trash night, so I can be put out in a Hefty bag." Also, she was a cheapskate: She disapproved of spending on the dead what could go to the living.

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

The highest task of intelligence: to imagine a future and then smooth its approach.