planning Quotes

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

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

"A goal without a pan is just a wish."

"If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it."

"If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions."

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.