The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

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?

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

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

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

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.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

I got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

My business is to prevent the future.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Begin with the end in mind.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

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.

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

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

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.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The future is purchased by the present.

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.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

Service of any type requires preparation.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

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

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

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

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

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It’s hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.