Quotes About Planning

Packing your lunch for the work week can seem like an unattainable goal especially when work gets hectic and crazy.

My job as a mayor is to look 10, 15, 20 years into the future and think not just about my generation, but about my children's generation and my unborn grandchildren and think - what is the kind of economy that they're going to to inherit and what are we doing today to prepare ourselves for that?

To set a 100-day plan was to will myself into the future, no matter how uncertain it seemed.

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them. Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength. Keep your army continually on the move, and devise unfathomable plans.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.

Councils of War never fight.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

who wishes to fight must first count the cost

Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.