Quotes About Planning

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.

Man's best friend is a really good plan!

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.

Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

Man plans. God laughs.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

My mom gave me one of those cloth calendars for the kitchen. It took me three hours to sew in a dental appointment.

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

Proverbs 16:3 'Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.' A great reminder when planning out the school year.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.

People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, 'Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?' And I said, 'None.' He then asked, 'Who sold you on that plan?'