Quotes About Planning

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Having a long-term plan--and not casting it aside--is the key to dealing with our fear of loss (loss aversion).

Don't let your company default to the kind of numbers that your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is likely to grind out. Instead, look for data that will help you understand whether a specific initiative is succeeding according to the most relevant metrics.

in general, strategy should be reviewed every quarter and updated every year.

Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.

Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.

The more prepared you are, the less pressure you feel.

The two major ways people fail financially: 1) Spend when they should save. 2) Save when they should invest.

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.

The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your houses as soon as they are complete.

Just as in other aspects of your life, setting financial goals is a tried-and-true way to reach those goals.

Save to invest, don't save to save.

Setting goals can help you gain both short and long term achievements.

The only reason to save money is to invest it.

Use challenges to reassess your strategic progress.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.

Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account. We get ourselves into circumstances that were not chosen by God, and suddenly we realize that we have been making our plans without Him—that we have not even considered Him to be a vital, living factor in the planning of our lives.

Deliberately tell God that you will not fret about whatever concerns you. All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.

Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt.

you've got to plan for the nonshopper as much as the shopper.

These bachelor parties get a little out of hand sometimes. Eddie Watkins is making all the arrangements. If I know Eddie, he's probably lined up a whole bunch of chorus girls.

A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.

you were thirty, you were a failure," she told the audience. "And now a lot of young women think that if they aren't seriously successful before thirty, they're a failure. So I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after thirty—and forty, and fifty, and sixty, and seventy-seven! Believe me, life is one long surprise. And you can't plan it, but you can prepare.