Quotes About Planning

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.

I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns.

In order to be a player on the fast track, you will need to have a plan on how to gain more and more control. On the fast track, it is control more than money that counts.

When you have a kid, money matters.

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

Save for your goals. Take note of what's coming your way - vacations, the holidays, what ever is going to cost you money - and start saving ahead of time so that you have a stash when the time comes.

You won't be caught off guard and you won't feel guilty, because you'll be spending money that you've allocated for the occasion.

If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.

The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container.

I now consider the money I put into my pension to have been a mistake.

I would have shared with the banks my long-term vision and got them involved instead of just going to them when I needed money. I should have got them on my team right from the start.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

If you don't know where to put your money, it will be gone.

You have to plan a lot and you have to be really smart about how you're spending your money.

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.