Quotes About Planning

Had she been able to see into the future, she might have pointed out that she was previewing her successors' plans for a possible no-deal Brexit.

Leave not the business of to-day to be done to-morrow; for who knoweth what may be thy condition to-morrow? The rose-garden, which to-day is full of flowers, when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose, may not afford thee one.

You couldn't plan a picnic without strangling yourself with the cloth.

Haz planes a tres-cinco años vista como máximo

Sooner or later, we are going to face death; should we be making preparations while we are living?

It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.

Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.

Many people plan financially for retirement—but not spiritually and emotionally.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

I don't feel the need to get out, but I can't work forever, so I guess I'd better think about it," said Paul Saginaw of Zingerman's. "Currently our exit strategy is death.

The mistake they make grows partly out of their tendency to regard the exit as simply an event, and a relatively distant one at that. But the exit is actually a critical phase of a business owner's journey and an integral part of the entrepreneurial experience. "It's like passing the 26.2-mile mark of a marathon, or crossing home plate after a home run

This book will not deal with the financial side of retirement planning instead it's totally focused on ideas to help you create your new adventure of retirement. You will be creating your own calendar. How you choose to fill your calendar is up to you!

That is why effective organizations have monthly board meetings.

Every director needs an annual personal development plan agreed with the chairman.

Strategic thinking is the director's role. Planning is an exclusively executive role.

trying to avoid here is the rush into planning projects and budgets at the expense of strategic thought

How we use our time reflects our priority in achieving our goals.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.

The impossibility of penetrating the divine pattern of the universe cannot stop us from planning human patterns, even though we are conscious they are not definitive.

Tomorrow thinks not of the cares of today.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities, and then to treat them as probabilities.

Bezos is like a chess master playing countless games simultaneously, with the boards organized in such a way that he can efficiently tend to each match.

Bezos liked to say that "good intentions don't work, but mechanisms do.