Planning Quotes

“I am a master of foolhardy plans.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

“You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

“She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.”
― Junot Díaz, Drown

“The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.”
― Alan Sheinwald, Alan Sheinwald is Building a Perfect Home

“Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.”
― Bryant McGill

“Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.”
― Max McKeown, The Strategy Book

“The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“What's the pleasure?' I asked.
'Planning, I guess. I don't know. Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.”
― Rachael Bermingham

“Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.”
― Habeeb Akande

“Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.”
― Mark Twain

“That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.”
― Mark A. Rayner, The Fridgularity

“The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest; The kind of potentials in you will decide the type of success you will celebrate.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“This is the best bad plan we have, sir.”
― chris terrio

“Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“We're endangered by our own success.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

“The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.”
― James Marcus Bach, Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success

“We may propose many plans, let's but remember that God can dispose our plans, propose a new and better ones and impose them on us!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Your future is always more valuable than today, the sooner you realise that the better”
― Steve Douglas, The Aussie Expat: The Luckiest Person on Earth

“A plan is the transport medium which conveys a person from the station of dreams to the destination of success. Goals are the transport fees.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.”
― Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions, and Eternity: A Comprehensive Guide to What the Bible Says about Financial Stewardship, Generosity, Materialism, Retirement, Financial Planning, Gambling, Debt, and More

“Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Envision in your mind what you expect from life, focus on your plan... whether good or bad you can anticipate its arrival. The choice is then yours to accept it.”
― Mark W Boyer

“La planificación a largo plazo en un negocio es una fantasía, a no ser que tú seas una pitonisa”
― Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Rework

“Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.”
― Tom Turner, City as Landscape

“Our planning consisted of starting up our project by generating some income through t-shirts and small products. Then we worked our way up with art shows and art projects that I’m creating under our collective. Only then did we announce the comic book, because if we don’t do these things before, no one is going to care what you’re doing for the bigger project that you’ve got coming next. We worked it up in steps, and once we announced the comic project it all came together.”
― K. Guillory