anticipating future needs Quotes

The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

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

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.