Quotes About Planning

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

It pays to be prepared.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Save now, so you are not dependent on your children when you are old

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

Priority Practice planning was a sacred time. It was always at the same time of day, in the morning, and was never interrupted except for emergencies.

Pattern Consistency is a major key to time-management. Search for and discover the best time to do planning, and do your planning at that same time every day. When the priorities receive their own place in the day, each day will have the same pattern. Pattern begets comfort and productivity. Patience An abundance of patience is needed to manage time consistently. Making the change to becoming a good time-manager may be very difficult.

Outlining, in short, is not merely a way of organizing ideas but is also a way of getting ideas.

And here is the eternal wisdom: There are always challenges. You plan for one thing, and something else often happens. The long view—is this a desirable thing or an undesirable thing?—is rarely immediately apparent. Immediate emotional responses are just that. Noticing them, and reflecting, is always a good idea. And the cause of suffering—always—is struggling with challenge rather than responding with sound judgment and kindness.

Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.

Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesnít occur again

Listen, God can't bless what you won't do. You haven't been taught correctly. Prosperity doesn't just come from giving an offering. It's good to be a giver. But you must also be a thinker, a planner, and a worker.

It wouldn't do him any good to cry, no matter how much he wanted to. He had to think. He had to try to gather as much information as he could, and lay it all out, and reason through it, and come up with some ideas of what to do and how to help.

There are 7 days in a week but someday isn't one of them.

In Tibetan we say, "Build the dike before the water comes.

Spontaneity and playing it by ear is fine for those who can afford it, but a boy from Eloe had to have a strategy

Think about your financial objectives and know what type of financial services you need. Knowing what you need will not only help you find the professional that's right for you, but it will also help prevent you from paying for services you don't want.

Every day you don't invest is a day less you'll have the power of compounding working for you. Put together an intelligent investment plan and get started. If you need help, seek out a good financial planner to assist you.

Market timing is a poor substitute for a long-term investment plan.

Being a Boglehead requires planning, commitment, patience, and long-term thinking.