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

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Stein, Ben

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

Confucius

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

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Argenti, John

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

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Milne, A. A.

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Homer

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Klemme, E. J.