Preparation and
Planning Quotes

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

The seeds of great discovery are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
- Joseph Henry (19th century Physicist)

Chance favors the prepared.
– Louis Pasteur

Luck is when opportunity and preparedness meet.
I’ll prepare myself, and when my opportunity comes, I’ll be ready.
– Abraham Lincoln

“If you don’t know where you’re going, no road will take you there.”
- Proverb

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend seven sharpening my ax.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.”
- Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller