Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Curtis, Donald

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Euripides

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

Stein, Ben

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

Knox, Chuck

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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

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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

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

Nelson, Paula

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Caine, Mark

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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Argenti, John

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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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.

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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.

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

Paul, Jean