Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty-year master plan. A fifty-year master plan will change how you look at the opportunities in the present.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Long-term planning changes perspective on current opportunities and enables truly great achievements.
- In plain terms
- Plan for fifty years to see present opportunities differently.
- What can you take from it?
- Think decades ahead to make better decisions today.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you want your legacy to be?
- How does long-term thinking change your today?
Another view
Fifty-year plans may become irrelevant due to rapid change.
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