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0161  P
“One trouble with Americans is that we’re fixers rather than preventers.” — James Harold Doolittle
PLANNING, Errors, Decision Making

0162
“What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.” — Spanish Proverb
PLANNING, Wisdom, Ignorance

0163
“Adventure is the result of poor planning.” — Colonel Blatchford Snell
PLANNING, Personal Management

0164
“The fact that 25% of businesses fail in the first year and less than 20% are still in business 10 years later is because of lack of proper planning.” — Jesse Werner
PLANNING, Business, Failure

0165  CH
“[Crash programs] fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant,  you can get a baby a month.” — Wernher Von Braun
PLANNING, Failure, Haste, Effectiveness

0166
“There are four steps to accomplishment: Plan Purposefully. Prepare Prayerfully. Proceed Positively. Pursue Persistently.” — Unknown
PLANNING, Optimism, Perseverance

0167
“The future is purchased by the present.” — Samuel Johnson
PLANNING, Procrastination, Vision

0168
“The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.” — George MacDonald
PLANNING, Personal Management, Procrastination, Vision

0169  P
“Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.” — Peter F. Drucker
PLANNING, Decision Making, Vision

0170
“You can never plan the future by the past.” — Edmund Burke
PLANNING, Vision, Competition

0171  P
“Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.” — Paul Valery
PLANNING, Procrastination, Decision Making, Excellence

0172  CA
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail.” — Benjamin Franklin
PLANNING, Chance, War & Peace

0173  C
“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.” — Lord Philip D. Stanhope Chesterfield
PLANNING, Excellence

0174
“Good is not good where better is expected.” — Thomas Fuller, M.D.
PLANNING, Excellence, Reward

0175
“Better is the enemy of good.” — Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
PLANNING, Excellence

0176
“The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.” — Arnold J. Toynbee
PLANNING, Government

0177
“You can make me sell them cheaper. You can’t make me reduce the quality.” — Frank Perdue
PLANNING, Competition

0178
“Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.” — Titus Maccius Plautus
PLANNING, Competition

PLANNING Cross-References
Wealth—50 • Motivation—90, 93 • Prudence—211 • Procrastination—259 • Fear—328 • Haste—361-362, 365-366 • Failure—385 • Attitude—409, 413 • Personal Management—419-420, 423, 427, 433, 435, 437 • Effectiveness—461 • Potential—480, 499 • Ignorance—514 • Knowledge—546 • Wisdom—574 • Thought—623, 632 • Vision—649, 651 • Chance—656-657 • Decision-Making—694, 696 • Patience—750 • Faith—1009 • Leadership—1146 • Accountability—1149 • Competition—1175-1176 • Politics—1235 • Law—1295 • War & Peace—1315-1316