Quotes About Planning

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

If you are thinking today is nothing to do for me then there is some laziness in your mind and you don't try to elaborate your thinking for future.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

Change takes time, forethought and knowledge, as well as an envisioned goal.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

You have to choose your future regrets.

The best way to create a future is to set a goal and take action.

You can't manage a project. You can only mange your thoughts to come up with better ideas to do the project in a better way.