Quotes About Planning

But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board

Make your motivations secret to the enemy, fool them into false planning, use their force against them, lead them onto harsh ground, hold true to the beliefs of your followers, and show them the ways they may become like you. Lead by example.

To be here now does not mean that we do not make plans but that we learn to give the making of future plans only a small amount of energy. And once future plans are made, we release our attachment to them.

Always put first things first.

Everyone should realize that today the average person lives to be about eighty years of age, the first twenty to twenty-five of which are used to either prepare oneself educationally — or not. For those who prepare well, about sixty years shall follow to reap the benefits; but for those who fail to prepare, there are sixty years to suffer the consequences.

One of the many pieces of advice his father had given him—besides the importance of antivenom and the need for a good, sturdy blade—was that field anthropology was ninety percent preparation, and ten percent trying desperately to recover when you didn't prepare properly.

You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, 'cause you might not get there. —Yogi Berra

After all, the whole point of investing is not to earn more money than average, but to earn enough money to meet your own needs.

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account, nor in any part of your thinking.

The Best Defense is a Good Offense

But the intelligent investor has no interest in being temporarily right. To reach your long-term financial goals, you must be sustainably and reliably right.

That's why inflation is so easy to overlook—and why it's so important to measure your investing success not just by what you make, but by how much you keep after inflation.

dollar-cost averaging," which means simply that the practitioner invests in common stocks the same number of dollars each month or each quarter.

You should always plan your battles form the enemy's point of view.

Never do what an enemy expects, Dudda. We'll go in at dawn. On the flood.

I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.

They were Danes, which meant they were planning mischief.

The civilized man is distinguished from the savage mainly by prudence, or, to use a slightly wider term, forethought. He is willing to endure present pains for the sake of future pleasures, even if the future pleasures are rather distant.

True forethought only arises when a man does something towards which no impulse urges him, because his reason tells him that he will profit by it at some future date.

And always, in our highly regularised way of life, he is obsessed by thoughts of the morrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous.

Which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Luke 14:28

The most effective time to resolve to obey Christ is in advance of difficulty. Planning to stay faithful can greatly enhance victory.

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.