Long Term Planning Quotes

The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.

It may take you months or even a few years to build up an adequate emergency savings fund. That's okay.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Begin with the end in mind.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

We suffer more … when we fall from a better to a worse situation, than we ever enjoy when we rise from a worse to a better. Security, therefore, is the first and the principal object of prudence.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

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

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.