Poor Planning Quotes

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

The trouble with General Hooker is that he has his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

He takes the second step before the first

I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

This man will never finish anything. He thinks about the end before he thinks about the beginning.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

I'll never forget my worst business decision. I bought a Nissan Pathfinder with my first signing bonus. I didn't even have a place to live, but I bought a car. Not a smart move but, believe me, I learned from that mistake.

Stocks are at an all-time high today. I don't have any money in the stock market. I don't have the stomach for the ups and downs. So about 20 years ago I put all of my money and liquid assets into videotape rewind machines.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

My desperation for UKIP to do well meant that I really packed the diary and the day in a way that, frankly, wasn't very bright.

People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don't plan not to.

It’s amazing how much research has gone into making some of the worst decisions.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

I put second things first, and then worry about first things.

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.