Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Mckain, Robert J.

3.

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

Homer

4.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

8.

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

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Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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.

12.

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

Caine, Mark

13.

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

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

15.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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

Mikita, Stan

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

23.

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

Patton, George S.

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

30.

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

Coudert, Jo

31.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

32.

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.

33.

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

Paul, Jean

34.

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

Argenti, John

35.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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