Five Year Plans Quotes

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I’d toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.

Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what’s left
of the five-year plan.

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

I’ve never been the girl that’s had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan and I’m still not.

Americans are so direct. They’d ask me, ‘What’s your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?’ I don’t know what I’m having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I’ve never been someone that’s had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn’t give you the chance to be flexible.

I’m not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, ‘Ok, I wouldn’t mind to try to get here in five years.’

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

It’s fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that’s too hard, start with a two-year plan.

I don’t believe in making five-year plans. I don’t want to say, “Yes, I want to have children in the next five years,” because I don’t know. I’ve always known that I’d like to be a mom, but I don’t want to live by a schedule. If I [did], I wouldn’t be living in the moment.

My whole family’s gonna be set for life and I’m not stopping rappin until that happens. I already know I got a five year plan. I’m 26 now and I’m gonna bow out on my 31st birthday. Peace, later, holla, I’m gone.

The voice of God does not pander, offers no five-year plan, no long-term
solution, nary an edict. It is small & fond & local. Don’t look for your initials in the geese
honking overhead or to see thru the glass even darkly. It says the most obvious crap – put down that gun, you need a sandwich.

I don’t always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It’s a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.

I’ve never had a five-year plan or a three-year plan, or whatever, … We had an idea philosophically of what we were going to do and how we were going to do it.