Jim Butcher Quotes

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

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

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.

It is better to anticipate than to react.

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

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

I always looked ahead.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

The long view counts.

I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.

We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.

I go by the rule of Gretzky: you gotta be there before the puck gets there, or you're going to get beat.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow.

It pays to be prepared.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.