Planning Quotes - Page 9

I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.

Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

Formulate a specific game plan... the specific steps in making your intention come to life.

So planning something big." "If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything like it." "It is," a voice said behind them. Maybeck slipped in alongside of them. "You about scared the pee out of me!" Charlene complained.

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses.

Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.

At all times it is better to have a method.

I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

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

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.

Purposeful organizations develop the next generation, not simply the next leader. My friend Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author and leading executive coach, does not like the term succession planning. Better to say, "succession development." That means you are focusing on multiple managers and grooming them to lead.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.