Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

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Best Quotes about Planning

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

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Ward, William A.

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

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Caine, Mark

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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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

Knox, Chuck

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

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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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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 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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When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Rothschild, William E.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

Mikita, Stan

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

Homer

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PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

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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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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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