planning quotes

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 really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

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.

My business is to prevent the future.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

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

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

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

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

Begin with the end in mind.

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.

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

The future is purchased by the present.

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

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

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

Service of any type requires preparation.

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.

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.

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.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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