Quotes About Planning

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

Why is there never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over?

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

El secreto de avanzar es comenzar. El secreto de comenzar es dividir las tareas complejas y abrumadoras en tareas pequeñas, manejables, y empezar por la primera. MARK T WAIN

Cuando aún se es muy joven, hay que pensar qué es lo que más nos agrada y luego organizar nuestra vida imaginando la forma de ganar dinero con esa actividad.

You can plan forever but at some point you have to execute.

luck was the residue of preparation.

Mo had been the one Iraqi commander who stood head and shoulders above his peers. He excelled in both the planning and tactical execution of direct-action missions, spoke English almost fluently, and had the trust of both his men and the senior leadership of the MOI.

Luck is the residue of preparation,

Excessive worrying about taxes usually leads to unsound investments in the hope of achieving a tax shelter.

Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop.

The most common cause of plans going wrong and operations collapsing can usually be traced to a communication breakdown. The secret to management success, in peace or war, is to explain strategy in clear terms, and to listen. Acquire those two skills, and fate will be kind.

strategic planning is less useful, what replaces it? Strategic experimentation.

Too often people are focused on the "urgent" at the expense of the important.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

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Through preparation. We salvage what we have. Through preparation. We can start a new. A commitment to time.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

If you know something bad is coming, can't you plan to avoid it or try to do something differently?" said Charles. Probably", said the Cartographer, "but then the good events would have no flavor. The joy you find in life is paid for by suffering that comes later, just as sometimes, the suffering is redeemed by a joy unexpected. That's the trade that makes a life worth living.

CEOs are trained to assess business strategy, it's time to take a page from their book and train yourself to manage your own personal career strategy. A career that is left to manage itself will under-perform much like a company whose strategic direction is left to chance. And like a business there are some best practices to avoid. There is planning to be done, decisions to be made and evasive measures to execute in times of trouble.

Luck is created by the prepared.