Quotes About Planning

FYI there's going to be like 3 or 4 different group chats for the senior ditch day because only 50 can fit in one gc.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

It is better to have it and need it, than to need it and not have it.

You'll hear me say this again: save your brain for higher-level thinking. Use your organizer for storing information. Don't trust your brain.

Most companies have a yearly rhythm. For example, retail often has a busy time around December. If you identify the rhythm, you can plan your projects around it. If you don't, you will find yourself swimming upstream. If your company doesn't have a defined rhythm, define one for yourself.

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.

Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.

Crashing could not be more inconsiderate to a host. It is a negative act because hosts likely have a particular plan for the event, an intention to move guests' attitudes in a certain direction.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

In my mind, I work out situations. Like, how I should play if I bat for four overs, or how should I approach myself if its 10 overs. These are things I work at the nets.

You can never stop your brain from thinking about what could happen tomorrow or next week or the next hour. It is not possible to close your brain to this in football.

I know what I'm going to write for the next three years. It's frustrating, because if I get a good new idea, I have to put it aside.

It's just like, you make a goal list - you write your goals down, you check it off once you get there and you make a new one.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

I do not make resolutions for New Year, but visualise and plan things.

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

People think it's just a 16-week season, but this is a 52-week kind of job. You're always thinking about how to improve and what to get for the next year.

Honestly, who knows 100 per cent what they will do next year?

I didn't want to put myself in a position where I was living so expensively that if something happened next year or two years from now and I wasn't making the same money, I couldn't afford my lifestyle.