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.

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.

2.

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

Argenti, John

3.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

4.

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

Paul, Jean

5.

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

George S. Patton

6.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

7.

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

Hugo, Victor

8.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

9.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

10.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

11.

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

12.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

13.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

14.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Caine, Mark

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

23.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Trotsky, Leon

28.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

29.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

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

32.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

33.

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

Patton, George S.

34.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

38.

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

Euripides

39.

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

40.

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

41.