Adam Carolla Quotes

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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

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.

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

I think it's really important to have a long-term perspective.

The thing that really sticks - and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same - is just thinking about the next day, the next week.

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.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?

I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.

Don't live like there's no tomorrow because tomorrow always comes.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I have to tell them something that is going on. "What time is it, Mitch?" "Uh, that guy is eating a hamburger." "Shi*, I had to be somewhere..."

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.