Quotes About Planning

We take five, one-week vacations a year, and those dates are set in stone.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.

Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.

It's an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.

Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

plans are all well and good in the Summer, but in the Winter it's wise to simply have an objective.' 'I thought we were meant to make a plan and stick to it?' 'Events move fast,' he said, 'and you need on-the-hoof flexibility to ensure the plan doesn't get in the way of the goal.' It actually seemed like quite good advice.

If you're failing to strategize, you're probably using your time in the wrong ways.

Ask for a monthly allowance instead.

Avoid the worst months for direct mail: March, May, and June; the best months are January, February, and October. The period January through March is best for business direct mail.

I attended a board meeting the next year when the chairman announced that the year would be devoted to no growth.

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

Aprovechemos el contento de espíritu cuando acude. Guardémonos de alejarlo por nuestra culpa, pero no hagamos proyectos para encadenarlo, pues que tales proyectos son puras locuras.

Before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and tests the ground to see if it can support the weight; in the same way the wise legislator doesn't start by laying down his good laws but by investigating whether the populace they are intended for is in a condition to receive them.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

We had some times, didn't we?' 'We did.' 'Never did build that Glass Castle.' 'No. But we had fun planning it.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

I'm a Virgo and I'm really good at scheduling. And I really make it work. I get up 6.30 every day.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.