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Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Chance favours only the prepared mind.

Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.

We have heard it said a thousand times that "practice makes perfect." As well-meaning as whoever told you this might have been, they were wrong. Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes consistent. Perfect practice makes perfect. Mediocre practice makes mediocrity.

The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame.
Mine were of trouble,
And mine were steady,
So I was ready
When trouble came.
- A.E. Houseman

You can say, who wants to go through life anticipating trouble? Well I did. All my life I've gone through life anticipating trouble. And here I am, going along in my 84th year and like Epectitus, I've had a favored life. It didn't make me unhappy to anticipate trouble all the time and be ready to perform adequately if trouble came. It didn't hurt me at all. In fact it helped me.