Alan Lakein Quotes

Planning means looking ahead.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

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

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.

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

It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.

We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.

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

Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

My business is to prevent the future.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

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?

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

The long run may be too long.

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