Quotes on Planning

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.