Quotes About Planning

Fear is the mother of foresight.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

The future never just happened. It was created.

Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Most leaders would agree that they'd be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.