Motivational Quotes

Planning

To be prepared is half the victory.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Milne, A. A.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Stein, Ben

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

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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

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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.

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

Thomas Paine

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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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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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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

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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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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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.

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

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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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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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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Knox, Chuck

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

George S. Patton

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Japanese

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Homer

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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