Quotes About Planning

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.