Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst.

If you want a crop for one year, grow millet. If you want a crop for ten years, grow a tree. If you want a crop for one hundred years, grow men.

Get the coffin ready and the man won’t die.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

What good is running if you’re on the wrong road?

Choose your neighbors before you buy your house.

Any plan is bad that cannot be changed.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

It’s an ill plan that cannot be changed.