Quotes About Planning

When you understand where you are in your development and what stage is coming up next, you can make choices that anticipate future challenges and thereby accelerate the pace of your development.

The best lesson I learned was to just do it. It doesn't matter what it is, or how hard it might seem, as the ancient Greek, Plato, said, 'The beginning is the most important part of any work

relativamente nuevo en su trabajo, ya está dejando su huella y ha fijado un completo plan de dos años que le servirá de referencia a todo el mundo para medir su progreso y el de la compañía.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

In all such instances of which I am aware, the Presidents do not think hard enough, carefully enough beforehand, about foreseeable, even likely consequences to their own effectiveness in office, looking down the line and around corners (xviii).

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

the planning fallacy—the systematic tendency toward unrealistic optimism about the time it takes to complete projects.

Like most aspects of mental accounting, setting up non-fungible budgets is not entirely silly. Be it with mason jars, envelopes, or sophisticated financial apps, a household that makes a serious effort to create a financial plan will have an easier time living within its means. The same goes for businesses, large or small. But sometimes those budgets can lead to bad decision-making, such as deciding that the Great Recession is a good time to upgrade the kind of gasoline you put in your car.

La combinación de tasas de rendimiento bajas (apenas por encima de la inflación) y las bajas tasas de ahorro de muchos empleados es simplemente una receta para la pobreza en la jubilación.

In forming your plan for your future you need to distinguish three different questions: What is possible? What is likely to happen? What is desirable to have happen?

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plan a tree? Twenty years ago.

When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.

Any attempt to engineer or plan your own enlightenment is doomed to failure because it will be ego driven. You will see only what you have already decided to look for, and you cannot see what you are not ready or told to look for. So failure and humiliation force you to look where you never would otherwise. What an enigma!

You can't do all your homework at the end.

But of course everything had conspired to spoil her entrance, which only went to prove what Janine already knew: that no matter how well you planned something, God always planned better. If He was feeling stingy that day and didn't want you to have some little thing you had your heart set on, then you weren't going to get it and that was all there was to it.

said, "All right, I give up. We have to drive to Acapulco, and we have to take the only road, and I don't see how we're going to get there." "What we'll do," he said, "is drive as far as Taxco, and then scout the territory. We can't make plans of our own until we know how they're set up. And they've got to be south of Taxco

Grover murmured, Well, Percy, what have we learned today? That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks? No, Grover told me. We've learned that your plans really, really bite!

Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look." "I don't have an I'm-planning-something look." "Yeah, you totally do. Your eyebrows knit together and your lips press together and—" "Do you have a pen?" she asked him.

But how did you know where we were? Annabeth asked. Advanced planning, my dear. I figured you would wash up near Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

Always, Always have a plan

Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.

A battle can be won before it's ever fought by choosing the right ground.

Athena always, always has a plan.

Damien Vesper Didn't plan on killing anyone today