Yehuda Berg Quotes

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

You've got to have a vision and an intention and that will guide what you do. I call it devotion. Ask yourself, "Is this not moving me toward where we need to be?" I believe that's helpful because a vision pulls you forward and it keeps you focused. A vision for the day, for the week, for the month and a lifelong vision - whatever works for you. And then you govern your activities and your behaviors accordingly.

Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.

It really doesn't matter or concern me what people are saying or who thinks who is the favorite. The bottom line is you have to play.

As Carol Dweck says, “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.

In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it... Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.

If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you’ll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.

Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

It's better to prepare than to repair.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can't.