Quotes About Planning

'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.

We grow up believing that what counts most in our lives is that which will occur in the future.

Of course we don't have to undertake any of these plans. But if we don't, chances are, sooner or later, we will regret it.

The American replied, "Maybe fifteen to twenty years." "But what then, Señor? What after the fifteen to twenty years?" The American laughed and said, "Ah, that's the best part. Because after that, when the time is right, you'd sell your company stock to the public, you'd become filthy rich, and you'd make millions.

Then, looking at your calendar, pick the two months when the barrel is stuffed full of ducks. Your answer here is March and April for many, many reasons. Also, responsible families with kids begin their search a month or two before school is out for the summer.

In the past, I used to say don't quit your job until your real estate income matches or exceeds your job income. Because of health insurance, you must bump this income up a bit. Perhaps one and a half times or maybe double your job income. This will allow for health insurance expenses as well.

No plan survives contact with the enemy." —Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

accurately setting and managing expectations.

If you tie iterations to the ends of months, one out of every three iterations will coincide with the end of a fiscal quarter.

A key tenet of agile estimating and planning is that we estimate size but derive duration.

Because the estimate for each feature is made relative to the estimates for other features, it does not matter if our estimates are correct, a little incorrect, or a lot incorrect. What matters is that they are consistent.

Planning is everything. Plans are nothing." —Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

Proverbs 22:3: "A wise man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.

You can't just close your eyes and hope everything turns out all right. That's a fine strategy for jumping out of an airplane, but it's no way to conduct your life. In order to get anywhere you must first know where it is you want to go. Then you can figure out how to get there.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

If you take your eye off the horizon to view the next mile that is where you might end up

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

Spend what you need but just throw even a few coins into a tin and forget that you have it. A woman should always have something put by.

On differences between men and boys) Men know what they want. Men make concrete plans. Men own alarm clocks. Men sleep on a mattress that isn't on the floor. Men tip generously. Men buy new shampoo instead of adding water to a nearly empty bottle of shampoo. Men go to the dentist. Men make reservations. Men go in for a kiss without giving you some long preamble about how they're thinking of kissing you. Men wear clothes that have never been worn by anyone else before.

If you can't handle providing all the courses for your dinner party, you can't handle the hosting duties of a dinner party.

History is essential to our understanding of the present. Unless we are conscious of the way in which we came to this point in time as a people, then we shall never fully be able to plan the present and the future. We need to know what roots are still alive. We need to know how things came to be so that we can project from here. We also need to know the failures of the past so that we can avoid repeating them.

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder