Motivational Quotes

Planning

At all times it is better to have a method.

- Caine, Mark

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Milne, A. A.

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

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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.

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Klemme, E. J.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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

George S. Patton

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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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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Homer

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.