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

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.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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

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

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

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

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Curtis, Donald

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A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

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

Nelson, Paula

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

George S. Patton

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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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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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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Knox, Chuck

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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 takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Mikita, Stan

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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

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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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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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