Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Argenti, John

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

2.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Daniel H. Burnham

3.

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

Stein, Ben

4.

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

Knox, Chuck

5.

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

6.

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

Paul, Jean

7.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

8.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

9.

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

Coudert, Jo

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Patton, George S.

15.

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

16.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

18.

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

19.

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

Edwards, Graeme

20.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

21.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

22.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

24.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

25.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

26.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Howard, Vernon

28.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

31.

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

Gilbert, Steven

32.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

33.

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

Homer

34.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

39.

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

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Proverb, Japanese

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

45.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

47.

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

Morrisey, George L.

48.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

49.

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

50.

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