Quotes about Planning

We will live reactive lives instead of proactive.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. [State of the Union Address January 11 1962]

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

I know it's crazy, but I actually prefer to prepare for disaster and worst-case scenarios, rather than panic once they do occur.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

Pantagruel said to his men, "Gentlemen, I have made this prisoner believe that we will not assault them till to-morrow at noon, but my intention is that we charge them about the hour of the first sleep.

If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.

We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?