Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Coudert, Jo

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Nelson, Paula

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

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

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

Gilbert, Steven

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Caine, Mark

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Thomas Paine

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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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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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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

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stein, Ben

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.