Steve Garvey Quotes

Begin with the end in mind.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

It's not like I have a master plan or anything.

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success.

I've got a long-term plan.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.