Plan Quotes

Life seems to me to consist of three parts: the absorbing and usually enjoyable present which rushes on from minute to minute with fatal speed; the future, dim and uncertain, for which one can make any number of interesting plans, the wilder and more improbable the better, since — as nothing will turn out as […]

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.

If you want a crop for one year, grow millet. If you want a crop for ten years, grow a tree. If you want a crop for one hundred years, grow men.

Get the coffin ready and the man won’t die.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

What good is running if you’re on the wrong road?

Choose your neighbors before you buy your house.

Any plan is bad that cannot be changed.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

It’s an ill plan that cannot be changed.