Quotes About Planning

A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.

Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

People laugh at my analogy in most cases - I go, 'Yeah, everything looks awesome on paper until you stick six guys in a submarine and go, 'Okay, go out and conquer America.''

Yeah I guess I don't want to end up being one of those stories where the guy ends up spending more than he has and owes money to the IRS and stuff like that. I just want to be able to take care of my family and live modestly.

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

You don't know what's going to happen in our business a year from now... so you have to be flexible and adaptable, and that's what we try to do.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.'

I never ever aspired for anything in life. I don't believe in planning or yearning for something very strongly. If something has to happen, it will happen.

I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.

Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.