Quotes About Planning

What most young people don't understand is that SAVING is more important in the beginning than finding the best performing investment. Having the ability to "Pay yourself first," manage your debt load, and determine a vision of what you want to accomplish is vital to your success.

Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA) are one way that parents can earmark funds for their children's education. Often gifts of cash for a child's birthdays and other special occasions end up in this account, and it grows over time.

You can invest in both a Coverdell ESA and a 529 plan at the same time. You're allowed to change the beneficiary to another family member. Finally, unlike an UGMA or UTMA Custodial account, you retain complete control of the assets.

Ive learned that you cant predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

I'm definitely planning ahead for a brand that spans the universe - a Zac Posen universe.

The career span for athletes is very short-lived. So you aren't being, perhaps, the smartest person if you don't take care of your family when you're able to.

Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

If I have a fever, I take a Crocin but my wife calls a doctor, my mother calls a doctor. Similarly, investing is not something which a doctor or a lawyer or Internet specialist can really understand. Take professional advice, plan.

I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

In order to have a decent chance to be a communicating species, you would have to learn to think and plan and act over time scales of a century or a millennium.

I outline and outline and outline, and then I'm very specific about the stuff I write. That's my process.

I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.

I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.

I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.