Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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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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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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

4.

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Trotsky, Leon

8.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Curtis, Donald

10.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

11.

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

12.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

13.

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

Paul, Jean

14.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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

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

Lakein, Alan

17.

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

Gilbert, Steven

18.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

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

20.

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

Coudert, Jo

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There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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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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.

26.

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

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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

28.

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

Nightingale, Earl

29.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Edwards, Graeme

31.

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

Confucius

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

37.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.