Motivational Quotes

Planning

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

- Bayol, Ben

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

Klemme, E. J.

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

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

Coudert, Jo

6.

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.

7.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

8.

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

9.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

10.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Trotsky, Leon

13.

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

Gilbert, Steven

14.

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

Thomas Paine

15.

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

George S. Patton

16.

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

Proverb, Japanese

17.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

18.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

Curtis, Donald

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

24.

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

25.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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.

32.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

33.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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.

35.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

36.

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

37.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

38.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

39.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

43.

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

Paul, Jean

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

46.

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

47.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

48.

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

Mikita, Stan

49.

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

Stein, Ben

50.

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