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

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Knox, Chuck

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Ziglar, Zig

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

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Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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

Caine, Mark

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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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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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It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.

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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

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Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

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Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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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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There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Churchill, Winston

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much...

Nelson, Paula