Motivational Quotes

Planning

Long-range planning works best in the short term

- Evelyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

8.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

9.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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.

11.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

12.

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

13.

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

Klemme, E. J.

14.

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

Edwards, Graeme

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Mikita, Stan

18.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

19.

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

Knox, Chuck

20.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Howard, Vernon

22.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

23.

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

28.

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

29.

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

George S. Patton

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

32.

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

33.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

34.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

35.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

37.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

38.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

39.

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

40.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

41.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

42.

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

43.

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

Argenti, John