By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Planning is bringing the future into the present.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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