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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Source: Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

“The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.”

“Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.”

“It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to me and say, 'Venita, I plan to fail.' Yet I have observed many who failed to plan and who unfortunately met with the same dismal results.”

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Book:Money Dynamics for the 1990s

Source: Money Dynamics for the 1990s

“For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.”

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Author:Wallace Stegner

“Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.”

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Author:Patrick Lencioni

“Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.”

“In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different.”

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Author:Andrew Williams

“Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?”

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Book:Effective Leadership

Source: Effective Leadership