Quotes About Planning

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

The biggest goal can be achieved if you simply break it down into enough small parts.

Be not bound by the present, but leave nothing to luck.

Buying ahead of requirements does not pay. Any wins are negated later down the line.

That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It

The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it.

Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The

The two sides need to absorb the history of the decade before World War I, when the gradual emergence of an atmosphere of suspicion and latent confrontation escalated into catastrophe. The leaders of Europe trapped themselves by their military planning and inability to separate the tactical from the strategic.

There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

To many of these writers, planning became not just an approach to strategy formation but a virtual religion to be promulgated with the fervor of missionaries.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.

He had great faith in his own fortune. When planning anything he always felt in advance firmly convinced of success and fate smiled to him.

People who are given to deliberating on their actions generally find themselves in a serious frame of mind when it comes to embarking on a journey or changing their mode of life. At such moments one reviews the past and forms plans for the future.

He who wants results must allow for the means.

Death is more certain than tomorrow, night after day, winter after summer. So why do we prepare for tomorrow, night and winter, but not death?

Too many writers start with a good idea and carry it through the first chapters, then fall apart because they had no idea where the top of the mountain was in the first place.

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.