Service of any type requires preparation.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical – one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Order is heaven’s first law.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

The future is purchased by the present.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

The sergeant is the Army.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Before all else, be armed.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

The Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.