Quotes About Planning

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic of steps orchestrated, you can never get to the critical steps that I outline in any one of dozens of books.

I find myself working ten steps ahead of where I actually am on my laptop or keyboard, but I know what the ten steps are. I just haven't got to them yet.

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

I have taken the steps to freeze my eggs.

Sagittarius are very controlling. The thing about Sagittarius is this: we're planned, we're precise. We're like, 'If you do this and then you do this, you'll end up being this.' There's always a plan to follow. I'm not a follower, I'm a leader. I'm already five steps ahead of you so I think we're the smartest sign of the horoscope.

We're looking at the court as X's and O's and plays that can happen, two three steps ahead of time. That's what the best point guards do. As you grow into a point guard that's what you learn, and eventually, you tend to grasp that.

When there is no coherent strategy, tactics, no matter how flashily executed, become meaningless.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

If you're not yet wealthy but want to be someday, never purchase a home that requires a mortgage that is more than twice your household's total annual realized income.

How can well-educated, high-income people be so naive about money? Because being a well-educated, high-income earner does not automatically translate into financial independence. It takes planning and sacrificing.

Great offense and poor defense translate into under accumulation of wealth.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

I hope people learn to appreciate our people in uniform. These aren't guys who just shoot 'em up. They plan. And they are extremely intelligent.

Soldiers are in the business of death-inflicting it, and, as little as possible, receiving it. They must be careful, but they also must take risks. And they reduce those risks by planning.

Wary of being caught unawares, we planned our parenthood, committed to trial marriages with pre-nuptials, and pre-arranged our parents' funerals—convinced we could pre-feel the feelings that we have heard attend new life, true love, and death.

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