Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

2.

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

3.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

4.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

5.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

6.

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

7.

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

Homer

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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.

12.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

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

14.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

15.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

18.

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

Caine, Mark

19.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

20.

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

Gilbert, Steven

21.

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

22.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

23.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

25.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

27.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Knox, Chuck

34.

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

Coudert, Jo

35.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Stein, Ben

37.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

38.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

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

Paul, Jean

40.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

41.

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

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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.

43.

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

Thomas Paine

44.

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

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

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

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.

49.

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.

50.

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.