Quotes about Planning

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

To live strongly and creatively in the kingdom of the heavens, we need to have firmly fixed in our minds what our future is to be like. We want to live fully in the kingdom now, and for that purpose our future must make sense to us. It must be something we can now plan or make decisions in terms of, with clarity and joyful anticipation. In this way our future can be incorporated into our life now and our life now can be incorporated into our future.

The Day Dawns: Rising with Praise, Petition, and Planning.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Be not bound by the present, but leave nothing to luck.

That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It

The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it.

As you look at your life look at your goals and dreams, it's better to be prepared for an opportunity not have one than have an opportunity and not be prepared. If you expect to reach your goal prepare yourself now.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.