Motivational Quotes

Planning

The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

- American Management

Best Quotes about Planning

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Stein, Ben

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.

Walsh, Basil S.

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

Harvey-Jones, John

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Hill, Napoleon

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The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Waitley, Denis

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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Meyer, Paul J.

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In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment.That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.

Einhorn, Hillel J.

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Some self-confronting questions: Where do I want to be at any given time? How am I going to get there? What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?... What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?

Ford, George A.

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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Steinem, Gloria

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We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Bennett, Arnold

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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

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With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track

Reed, Scott

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The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.