Quotes About Planning

Many people] plunge into all sorts of detail about what they want to accomplish, what investment they should buy, and where they want to be, without fist making sure they know where they stand now.

If you don't know where you're going, you might not like where you end up.

If you have $10,000 sitting in a savings or checking account earning only 1.0 percent annually when it could be earning 4.5 percent, you are cheating yourself out of $450 a year in interest. The way I see it, that's a plane ticket to Hawaii or a fancy dream night out on the town or more money in your retirement account! In other words, that so-called free checking account at the bank really isn't. Quite the contrary, it's costing you a fortune.

Pooh and Piglet were sitting together over breakfast at that pleasant time of the day when you know that there is much to be done but not quite yet.

As he told Hill, he was simply following the "Eight 'P's," a mnemonic that had been drummed into them in the military: "Proper prior planning and preparation prevents piss-poor performance." The Real Heroes Are Dead Article from The New Yorker.

Prior preparation prevents poor performance.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.

by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

Learn to automate the process for the cake you baked before baking your next cake

Kurita knew that heavenly influences could be counted upon to trump human planning. In war, events seldom cooperate with expectation. Given

The victory at Leyte Gulf was the product of Allied planning, savvy, and panache, to be sure. But only Samar showed the world something else: how Americans handle having their backs pushed to the wall.

I always plan for longterm, life to me is a never ending chess match

he was psyching himself up for what he had planned for that evening, convincing himself it was the right thing to do. The only thing to do. Plus, he was absolutely terrified and he didn't want the others to notice.

And yet it's not really an experiment as much as it is … constructing a blueprint.

And who knew what obstacle might spring up next? Or had the girls planned something else for him?

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once.

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

Long lead times are required for effective action.

HAVING ASSEMBLED the men who would plan and take part in his expeditions to America, Ralegh's next task was to determine where a colony should be located and what kind of settlement it would be.

Their crowing and the vapors of the hot sauce helped clear enough room in my head to think about out what I had to do. Planning my day was a way of not giving into despair. It really is not possible to pay attention fully to two things at once. For instance: carpentry and suicide.

General Lee said that the attack of his right was not made as early as expected,—which he should not have said. He knew that I did not believe that success was possible; that care and time should be taken to give the troops the benefit of positions and the grounds; and he should have put an officer in charge who had more confidence in his plan. Two-thirds of the troops were of other commands, and there was no reason for putting the assaulting forces under my charge.

The United States has usually prepared for its wars after getting into them. Never was this more true than in the Civil War.