"If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke."
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"Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action."
"Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes."
"One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it."
"The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao."
"If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!"
"Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand."
"Before beginning, plan carefully."
"The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?"
"Every battle is won before it is fought."
"The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals."
"Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right."
"A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go."
"Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile."
"I'm planning a catastrophe."
"Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming."
"Quit planning your dream and start living it."
"Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan."
"The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man."
"We must ask where we are and whither we are tending."