Quotes About Planning

He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if ... ?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?"

Always bring money along with your complaints.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.

You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.

A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.

Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.