Motivational Quotes

Planning

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

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

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Confucius

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

Caine, Mark

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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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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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Coudert, Jo

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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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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Nelson, Paula

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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.