The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It’s the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect–but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness.

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

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.

Adventure is just bad planning.

We are planning to buy Treasuries and the consumer price report reinforced our views that U.S. notes will rally. With the Fed likely to raise rates again, that will keep inflation well contained.

You can’t predict the future, but you can plan for it

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

Keep your maximum focus on the present and a little planning ahead because without the present there is no future.

The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what’s there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it!

yes” to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them.

La planificación a largo plazo en un negocio es una fantasía, a no ser que tú seas una pitonisa

One step actually taken achieves more than a lifetime of planning.

When you’re about to be turned down, go for a postponement.

The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.