Quotes About Planning

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.

That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent.

Your leadership community is in trouble if your leaders are more excited about a strategic planning meeting than a prayer meeting.

Optimism research teaches us that we should expect the best and have a contingency plan for the worst.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Far from shocking the rulers of Europe, the war that erupted in August 1914 was widely anticipated, rigorously rehearsed, immensely resourced and meticulously planned.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power

But binge writers are also binge readers and binge statisticians. The bad habits that keep them from getting down to writing also keep them from doing the prewriting (Kellogg, 1994)—the reading, outlining, organizing, brainstorming, planning, and number-crunching necessary for typing words.

A plan without room for change is a recipe for frustration.

Long-term goals refer to projects or financial goals that need funding five or more years from now. Intermediate-term goals refer to financial goals that need funding two to five years from now. Short-term goals need funding less than two years from now.

Demolition experts agree that the preparation to execute the controlled demolition of a high-rise building takes months to plan and carry out. Several credible reports of foreknowledge have come forth. It is only reasonable to suspect that powerful insiders, not just the 19 alleged hijackers, were behind the destruction.

There never seemed to be any spontaneity with Pauline. If she saw you, she meant to. If she spoke to you, she'd already planned what to say so it came out sharply and perfectly.

Despite the most meticulous planning and organisation, there is no successful way out of any difficult situation without the hand of god.

what can we do now in order to be able to do tomorrow what we are unable to do today?

No matter how sad you feel, plan something special that you want to do each day, even if it's only taking a bubble bath or watching a movie. Set a date to visit a friend, or order a book you want to read from the library. Always have something to look forward to.

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

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Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

Best way to survive in the wilderness is stay warm and dry and fed and don't get lost, but you make those arrangements before you go there.

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

The best way to predict your future is to create it