Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Planning

Quotes about: Planning

• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Memorial Day

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

• Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Preparation, Essentials, Useless

• Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fighting, Battle, Planning

• Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspiring, Military, Statistics

• Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Useless, Planning, Process

• The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which these other forms of protection can be soundly built. Thus, the individual's own work, his planning and his thrift will bring him a higher standard of living upon his retirement, or his family a higher standard of living in the event of his death, than would otherwise be the case. Hence the system both encourages thrift and self-reliance, and helps to prevent destitution in our national life.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Retirement, Pension Plans, Self

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