Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Euripides

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Edwards, Graeme

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Paul, Jean

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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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A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Churchill, Winston

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

Homer

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Patton, George S.

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

Confucius

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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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Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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

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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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