Quotes About Planning

I get energized around a plan - what's it going to be like in three months? Six months? You're not going to let it defeat you. You got to keep going.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

I see good personal financial management as setting - and keeping - a budget.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

Time is key to building your financial security.

Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'

We can't continue to kick the can when it comes to the fiscal state of this country.

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

I plan to keep working until I'm 65. Then I'm going to retire. I've got 50 acres on the gulf at La Paz and I'm going to hunt and fish.

When we understand that He is Lord of our time, we realize that interruptions are of His planning. They become opportunities to serve rather than plagues to keep us from functioning.

Soldier, you ready to head out?" "Yes, sir." "Flashlight? Pocket knife? Compass?" "Check." "Clean white shirt? Success loves preparation. You never know when a clean shirt will be needed.

He'd had all day to think about how he might manage this escapade without getting caught. The wars had taught him that rash courage was no substitute for a careful plan. But fate does not always cooperate with the plans of men.

I return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve to just go ahead and happen to you before you're ready. Before you even get the chance to aim yourself right!

She scowled as the possibility occurred to her that she'd actually made herself ill merely by planning to pretend she was.

Lists had become my anchors. They got me through the days. The oblivion of sleep got me through the nights. So long as I knew exactly where I was going and what I was doing the next day, I didn't flounder.

I'm used to feeling like I'm the only one sees the hard things coming, and I'm always angling to skew the odds in my favor. It's nice to know somebody else is preparing, too.

I envision the possible scenarios, starting with the worst first. I like to do it that way so I can end on the happy thought and aim for it.

return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve to just go ahead and happen to you before you're ready. Before you even get the chance to aim yourself right!

Sometimes you plug the hole any way you can, and worry about fixing the boat later. If the choices are sinking today or tomorrow, I'll take tomorrow.

I'm confused, Ms. Lane. Is this cake for me, or for you?" Yeah, well, there was that. I'd been planning on eating a lot of it myself. I'd spared no expense. I could have downloaded forty-seven songs from iTunes instead. "They were out of black icing," I said dryly.

Beware leaders that want to negotiate for shorter time frames than the team feels is prudent. Most leaders have been away from the front lines for a long time and have grown out of touch with how long it takes to plan and execute well-thought-out improvements.

It bears repeating: in our experience, the plan review meetings are a key success factor in value stream transformation.

Executing and sustaining change requires a different set of organizational behaviors than those required for planning.