Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes

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

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

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

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'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

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

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

The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.

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.

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.

Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

It's tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there's a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we've already set out.

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

People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?

With each new day, I'm learning how to take control in order to have balance in my life. I plan time for myself and my loved ones and take it.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.