Quotes About Planning

The secreting of wealth in tax havens is often justified as 'legitimate tax planning.'

A large part of the income of the 'Big 5' accountancy and consultancy firms derives from tax avoidance schemes which flourish in the name of tax planning. Their legality has agitated courts in India and abroad for a long time.

Sometimes I spent more time planning a climb than doing it.

People always say I can be a party planner because I'm really good at having to go and planning things out.

Food justice must be incorporated into the city's long term and big picture planning efforts.

I was always told failure to plan is planning to fail, so I've always been a huge guy on planning.

I have a really large family, so we have three big Christmas celebrations. This involves intense diary planning, compromising between the families - and serious food shopping.

Always plan, but never plan on your plans.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong.

The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.

It's always good to have different plans.

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

We're very specific when we're drawing work plans. We think about the chances of when a person gets off the elevator where they will go. We think about how people get to a coffee machine, when they go and get their lunch, when they go to the bathroom.

I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

Dad loved computer games, and I would sit beside him for hours with graph paper, drawing out plans to try and forecast the moves he should make while he worked the computer controller.

As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.

My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - a partnership with the O'Neill Family, who owned Rancho Mission Viejo. As the young president of the company, I had the responsibility for master planning, master building and implementing the new community's development plans.

I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans.

If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.

Babies are wonderful, important things. Having kids, even the thought of having kids, is a big emotional deal. But sometimes it can cause people to change their financial plans and directions.

If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture for what they want to be doing. To figure out a way in which those trajectories align really takes time.

You can come up with all the gameplans that you want but the guys in the middle have to execute those plans. If Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad serves up a leg-stump half-volley, you can't turn round and blame Andy Flower.