Marketplace Proverbs & Coffee With Ernie

Marketplace Proverbs and Coffee with Ernie-A Proverb Per Day Keeps Stinking Thinking At Bay · Nov 21, 2025 · 10m

“The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.” Proverbs 21:5 (ESV)

“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” Paul “Bear” Bryant, University of Alabama Football Coach

Over the years, I’ve set many goals. Honestly, I’ve achieved far fewer than I intended—not because the goals were wrong, but because I lacked the will to prepare to accomplish them. I wrote some in journals and jotted others on scrap paper. But that’s where the journey ended—not in failure, but in abandonment due…