Proactive Planning Quotes

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

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

During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.

Change before you have to.

… problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Hope is not a strategy.

We can't continue to always base our strategy on the fact that the other guy is going to mess up all the time.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

The challenge of our times is to leave nothing to chance.

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

One of the lessons of 2016 is to spend less time worrying about what will happen and more time worrying about what we want to happen.

We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur .

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.