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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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.

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

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

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

Klemme, E. J.

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

Curtis, Donald

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

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

Coudert, Jo

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

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

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

Caine, Mark

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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

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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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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

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

Knox, Chuck

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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