Quotes About Planning

strategic planning should be more about collective wisdom building than top-down or bottom-up planning.

begin to determine what you really want in the distant, intermediate, and near future.

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, and of machine-time, all of which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay. The consumer is not always willing to subsidize this waste. The inevitable result is loss of market. Loss of market begets unemployment.

There are two problems: i. Problems of today; ii. Problems of tomorrow, for the company that hopes to stay in business

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

In the suburbs it's hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be in December.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

We're prepared, and we've done everything we can to prepare for this moment in time. That's what confidence is all about.

Manage your life as you manage your money.

My dad was very worried that I wasn't saving and didn't have a pension. I've never invested well.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

If you have to plan for a future beyond the forecasting horizon, plan for surprise. That means, as Danzig advises, planning for adaptability and resilience.

As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must be constant and discreet. Honesty matters so much less.

There's only one way to find out," said Eddie, smiling slightly. Beth turned to her sister. "Spy on them?" "Exactly." Caroline began to feel all warm inside again, though not, she knew, with the Christmas spirit. Eddie and Beth were back in her corner again, making plans, and that was right where she wanted them to be.

Good intentions were not enough; they had to be rationally implemented.

For the plan grows under the author's hand; new thoughts occur to him in the act of writing; he has not worked out the argument to the end before he begins.