"Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions."
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"I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you."
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"People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence."
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"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."
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"When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning."
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"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
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"Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance."
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"While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started."
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"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential."
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"The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it."
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"hindsight is not a strategy."
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"Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship."
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"The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much."
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"I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point."
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"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
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"Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus."
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"Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance."
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"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."
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"There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring."
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"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."
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