Quotes About Planning

Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Henry Ford accumulated a fortune, not because of his superior mind, but because he adopted and followed a PLAN which proved to be sound. A thousand men could be pointed out, each with a better education than Ford's, yet each of whom lives in poverty

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

The FEAR OF CRITICISM is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the PLANNING and ACTION stage.

The most intelligent man living cannot succeed in accumulating money-nor in any other undertaking-without plans which are practical and workable.

Victor Hugo says: "He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all his operations.

example: I have five boys. I will make Billy a clergyman; John a lawyer; Tom a doctor, and Dick a farmer. He then goes into town and looks about to see what he will do with Sammy. He returns

you must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

Keep in mind these facts:— First: you are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless. Second: you must have the advantage of the experience, education, native ability and imagination of other minds. This is in harmony with the methods followed by every person who has accumulated a great fortune.

CAPITAL consists not alone of money, but more particularly of highly organized, intelligent groups of men who plan ways and means of using money efficiently for the good of the public, and profitably to themselves.

Tell me how you use your spare time, and how you spend your money, and I will tell you where and what you will be in ten years from now.

This line of procedure may take a few days or weeks of extra time, but the difference in income, in advancement, and in gaining recognition will save years of hard work at small pay. It has many advantages, the main one being that it will often save from one to five years of time in reaching a chosen goal.