Harry Anderson Quotes

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

You don't know what's going to happen in our business a year from now... so you have to be flexible and adaptable, and that's what we try to do.

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It's good to have a plan for your future; it's even better to write your plan in pencil.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

Because of the nature of this industry, it's a bit dangerous to think far ahead.

If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.

If anybody knows that you need to be prepared regardless of the situation, that's me.

You can't plan your future.

If anything goes wrong, it's important to have your education to fall back on.

I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.

I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

We must prepare for everything.

Don't live like there's no tomorrow because tomorrow always comes.

People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?

There is no excuse not to give two minutes today to intend your tomorrow.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.