Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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.

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

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

Thomas Paine

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Knox, Chuck

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

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

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Paul, Jean

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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.