Quotes About Planning

I have always been goal-oriented. I have a clearly defined set of daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals, annual goals, and lifetime goals. I even have goals to go to the bathroom. I always tell our young executives that they must have goals.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline. How

How do you become wealthy? Here, too, most people have it wrong. It is seldom luck or inheritance or advanced degrees or even intelligence that enables people to amass fortunes. Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

set of daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and lifetime goals

Operating a household without a budget is akin to operating a business without a plan, without goals, and without direction.

If you're not yet wealthy but want to be someday, never purchase a home that requires a mortgage that is more than twice your household's annual realized income.

What happens when you tell the average American adult that he needs to reduce his spending in order to build wealth for the future?

A good start is to keep an accurate record of each and every expenditure that your family makes each month. Or ask your accountant to help you set up a system for tabulating and categorizing these expenditures. Then work with her to develop a budget. The goal is to enable you to set aside for investing purposes at least 15 percent of your pretax income each year. By the way, this "15 percent method" is Mr. Gif-ford's simple strategy for becoming affluent. CAR-SHOPPING

being a well-educated, high-income earner does not automatically translate into financial independence. It takes planning and sacrificing. What

What if your goal is to become financially independent? Your plan should be to sacrifice high consumption today for financial independence tomorrow. Every dollar you earn to spend is first discounted by the tax man.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

What is called "planning" in political rhetoric is the government's suppression of other people's plans by superimposing on them a collective plan, created by third parties, armed with the power of government and exempted from paying the costs that these collective plans impose on others.

Government "planning" is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people's plans.

What is called "social" planning are in fact government orders over-riding the plans and mutual accommodations of millions of people subject to those orders.

Economists who looked at the real consequences of a centrally planned economy came to a very different conclusion: that there are too many economic relationships, and it is impossible to take them all into account and carefully coordinate them.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. —Savielly Tartakover (Polish GM)

an especially effective way to reduce abortions is to promote access to long-acting contraception.

Life management problems

They were all in a conspiracy against her! Mary, Niall, and Iain. Perhaps they had planned all this from the start.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. —Henry Ford industrialist

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.