Forethought Quotes

Better reap two days too soon than one day too late

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

In history, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

The cautious seldom err.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

Anyone who takes the first step without planning the last step should not be allowed in the counsels of war.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

We thought we would get around to it sometime down the line. Theoretically we could have regulated it, but it wasn't on our radar screen.

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation