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  • #1
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • #2
    William Gibson
    “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
    William Gibson

  • #3
    Yogi Berra
    “If you don't know where you are going,
    you'll end up someplace else.”
    Yogi Berra

  • #4
    Jarod Kintz
    “I’ve got a sizeable retirement nest egg. It’s an ostrich egg, and it’s going to make an omelet so big that it’ll produce enough leftovers for decades.
”
    Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

  • #5
    Chaim Potok
    “…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”
    Chaim Potok, Davita's Harp

  • #6
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • #7
    Warren Buffett
    “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
    Warren Buffett

  • #8
    Peter F. Drucker
    “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
    Peter F. Drucker

  • #9
    Doris Lessing
    “I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”
    Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

  • #10
    Steve Maraboli
    “If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #12
    Susan Gregg Gilmore
    “It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”
    Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

  • #13
    Steve Maraboli
    “When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #14
    Jack Campbell
    “I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”
    Jack Campbell, Dauntless

  • #16
    Rose Tremain
    “In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
    Rose Tremain

  • #17
    Jared Diamond
    “Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”
    Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

  • #18
    T.F. Hodge
    “Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.”
    T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

  • #19
    Winston Churchill
    “Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #20
    Brandon Sanderson
    “The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

  • #21
    Joanne Harris
    “A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”
    Joanne Harris, Runemarks

  • #22
    Bryant McGill
    “Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.”
    Bryant McGill

  • #23
    Max McKeown
    “Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.”
    Max McKeown, The Strategy Book

  • #24
    “Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.”
    Bob Carter

  • #25
    B.F. Skinner
    “The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.”
    B.F. Skinner, Walden Two

  • #26
    Habeeb Akande
    “Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.”
    Habeeb Akande

  • #27
    “This is the best bad plan we have, sir.”
    chris terrio

  • #28
    James Marcus Bach
    “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

  • #29
    Raheel Farooq
    “The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.”
    Raheel Farooq

  • #30
    Steve Douglas
    “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

  • #31
    Anthony  Powell
    “An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.”
    Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones

  • #32
    Kelli Jae Baeli
    “That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.”
    Kelli Jae Baeli, Also Known as Armchair Detective



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