Quotes About Planning

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

The future is purchased by the present.

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

There aren't enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved.