Richard M. Daley Quotes

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

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.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

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

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

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

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way.

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

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

I'm a guy who's been around this sport on the outside looking in, seeing, watching, scheming, plotting and planning his next big move.

I think long-term, not short-term.

To be honest, I'm not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

We have to start a process of looking at what's next after we complete the modernization effort.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

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

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that-and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.

Hope is not a strategy.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.