Quotes About Planning

Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi:

The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach:

My plan is to ride out my 30s with 'handsome man' parts, hit 40 and take some time off to have some kids, and then come back as Paul Giamatti.

When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.

Paying for disasters and being fiscally responsible are not mutually exclusive.

When you're setting up a budget, a general rule is to start with your fixed expenses - your housing and insurance payments, and car payment, if you own one.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

There's always a pencil in my bag. I put everything in pencil in my datebook. I live in L.A. - everyone's flaky.

I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It's good to have a plan for your future; it's even better to write your plan in pencil.

If you put nothing away for retirement, I can tell you, to the last penny, how much you will have when you retire: nothing.

I assume I must have a pension, but I don't know for sure. I have heard of ISAs, but I can't tell you if I have any.

I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.

I experienced how Pep Guardiola worked every day. He had football on his mind round the clock: 'What system does the opponent like to play? How do I want to set up my team, who do I want in which position?'

Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Aumentar los impuestos antes de generar prosperidad es como poner la carreta delante de los bueyes.

A striking illustration of the fact that true policy does not regard only the immediate necessities of the hour, but must ever look still more keenly to the future.

All we can do is pray, Ma, pray. No, Child, these are the deeds of human beings. Planned by the brains of humans, and by the warped hearts of humans. It is to people we must speak our words. God has never sided with the defeated.