Quotes About Planners

#1. ( ... ) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves)

Jess Walter

#2. Dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.

Noam Chomsky

#3. If it's a choice between selling a million Pocket Planners and getting the chance to be with you, I'll figure out some other way to get this product off the ground.

Bella Andre

#4. Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades

Nick Begich

#5. When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.

Jane Jacobs

#6. In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

Sun Yat-sen

#7. The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

Thomas Frank

#8. Accountability in public office is but one manifestation of this cultural inheritance, and we should not be surprised that it is the first thing to disappear when the utopians and the planners take over.

Roger Scruton

#9. A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.

Evan Osnos

#10. Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

Jim Stanford

#11. Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.

A.E. Samaan

#12. The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

Ronald Reagan

#13. The city planners in hell either had very bad taste or a strange sense of humor

Sarah Fine

#14. Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Robert Menzies

#15. I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.

William O. Douglas

#16. I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.

Edward R. Murrow

#17. Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.

Tom Turner

#18. While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life.

Jack E. Weller

#19. As always throughout history, she thought, there are no real victors in conquests; they are merely the planners for more conflict in the future. The

Barbara H. Martin

#20. To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

William Easterly

#21. A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market.

Michael Lewis

#22. The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

Peter Arnett

#23. We're providing planning to a huge audience who's never had access to financial planners before. This was always my plan for LearnVest. It was in my very first pitch deck.

Alexa Von Tobel

#24. All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

James Surowiecki

#25. I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#26. LENIN = "Revolutionary Social Democracy"
American Socialists = "Democratic Socialism". What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness.

A.E. Samaan

#27. It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

Richard Louv

#28. Strategists who don't take time to think are just planners.

Max McKeown

#29. Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest ... even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#30. A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

Cedric Price

#31. Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders and planners marry dreamers.

Olivia Mellan

#32. Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.

Robert Kiyosaki

#33. We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

George W. Bush

#34. While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

Walt Disney

#35. The more the planners, the worse the plans.

Anthony Eden

#36. As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Martin Cruz Smith

#37. Portfolio theory, as used by most financial planners, recommends that you diversify with a balance of stocks and bonds and cash that's suitable to your risk tolerance.

Harry Markowitz

#38. 'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

Ben Macintyre

#39. I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.

Randy Quaid

#40. The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

James Cook

#41. The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.

Andre Vltchek

#42. The plans differ; the planners are all alike ...

Frederic Bastiat

#43. Something that's obvious to a lot of people but it's never said much on the television or anything, that the architects and planners and whatever in London are inhuman to a really disgusting extent.

Shane MacGowan

#44. Centralization is an abomination! Decentralize everything! Leave nothing to the central planners.

A.E. Samaan

#45. There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

Edwin Louis Cole

#46. Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

Erik Qualman

#47. Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it ...

Wilferd Peterson

#48. Women are one of the most important segments of the adventure travel industry. Women make the vast majority of travel decisions in families - not only the destinations, but the activities. They are the predominant adventure travel planners.

Christopher Doyle

#49. The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

James Cook

#50. From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

Noam Chomsky

#51. Ah, and that . . . that had been a mistake. If not for that, she might have been able to anticipate what happened next. Reveries made one soft. She never should have forgotten that the world was on the side of the planners, not the dreamers.

Julie Anne Long

#52. Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

C.S. Lewis

#53. Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.

Ted Sizer

#54. That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

Paul Ryan

#55. We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.

John Woodward

#56. All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.

A.E. Samaan

#57. Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

A.E. Samaan

#58. A good financial planner is going to do more than pick your funds.

Dave Ramsey

#59. The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

A.E. Samaan

#60. The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.

A.E. Samaan

#61. If your priorities don't get scheduled into your planner, other people's priorities will get put into your planner.

Robin Sharma

#62. Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

A.E. Samaan

#63. Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

A.E. Samaan

#64. A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

Bruno Munari

#65. A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

A.E. Samaan

#66. Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.

A.E. Samaan

#67. The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.

A.E. Samaan

#68. Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

A.E. Samaan