Quotes about Planning

As you look at your life look at your goals and dreams, it's better to be prepared for an opportunity not have one than have an opportunity and not be prepared. If you expect to reach your goal prepare yourself now.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins. If your case is properly prepared and presented, your victory will have been more than half won at the outset.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

Financial independence, riches, desirable business and professional positions are not within reach of the person who neglects or refuses to expect, plan, and demand these things. The person who desires riches in the same spirit that Samuel Adams desired freedom for the colonies is sure to accumulate wealth.