Why You Need A Budget
| In a study at Harvard Business School in 1979, business students were asked, “How many of you have set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?”
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Ten years later, the study was revisited to see how each student was performing in the business world.
- The 13 percent who had made goals were earning about double, on average, of what the 84 percent who had made no goals were earning.
- The 3 percent who wrote their goals were earning ten times as much as the remaining 97 percent put together.




