Quotes About Planning

This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely.

In order to hold off the Forces of Darkness, you will need a number two pencil and a calendar, preferably one without pictures of kitties on it.

We should proceed with caution," whispered Wyrden. Angela made a faint noise in her throat. "How else were you planning to proceed? With blaring trumpets and shouting heralds? Really." The elf refrained from answering.

They've planned for every possible way out of here." But not , I thought, the impossible ways.

Remember, planning the future and reflecting on the past are valuable exercises, but doing this throughout your day interferes with what is in front of you—your present.

Writing a novel is like taking a long cross-country journey. The hardest part is getting going, making sure you have all the items you need to take with you, double- and triple-checking that the route you're taking is the best way. So often you leave your driveway and start north when you realize you actually needed to head southwest. I've never written a novel without a certain number of false starts. And it never seems to get easier. Part of me thinks it only gets harder.

I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.

General Scott's successes are an answer to all criticism. He invaded a populous country, penetrating two hundred and sixty miles into the interior, with a force at no time equal to one-half of that opposed to him; he was without a base; the enemy was always intrenched, always on the defensive; yet he won every battle, he captured the capital, and conquered the government. Credit is due to the troops engaged, it is true, but the plans and the strategy were the general's.

You don't have a real strategy if it doesn't pass two tests: First, what you're planning to do really matters to enough customers; and second, it differentiates you from your competition.

SWT Instead For senior leaders, we propose replacing the SWOT with the SWT: an updated approach that identifies inherent Strengths and Weaknesses within their firms while exploring broader external Trends beyond their own industry or geography.

As we've mentioned several times, the strategic planning process comprises two distinct activities: strategic thinking and execution planning. Strategic thinking is coming up with a few big-picture ideas. Execution planning is figuring out how to make them happen.

It's time to break apart a 50-year-old business term — strategic planning — and think about it in terms of two distinct activities: strategic thinking and execution planning. Each requires two very different teams and processes.

Scaling Up is organized around the 4 Decisions a leader must address: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash.

In general, looking forward is great management; looking backward is micromanagement.

Four Decisions, which emphasizes the main categories of decisions that all companies must get right. They are: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash.

In setting Strategy, follow the definition from the great business strategist Gary Hamel. You don't have a real strategy if it doesn't pass two tests: First, what you're planning to do really matters to enough customers; and second, it differentiates you from your competition.

A good plan now is better than a great plan too late.

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the premeditation of coups d'etat.

Meg is planning your wedding? Honey, that's like asking the pope to plan a bar mitzvah.

Everywhere she looked, she saw the rewards of her careful planning and judicious pruning. The beds were a riot of glorious color, with sugary pink saucer-sized roses, ruffled yellow peonies, spiked purple delphinium. The deep green English boxwood she'd taken such time with was well on its way to becoming the bones of the garden.

Mexico City has been ranked amongst the worst cities in the world in terms of urban planning,

You play the percentages in this game. If you try to plan for every lightning strike and shark attack you just end up paralyzed.

Never let your future depends of nothing but you. Never let your plans controlled by luck or possibilities. If you hope for a good tomorrow, be you the tomorrow.