Motivational Quotes

Planning

Long-range planning works best in the short term

- Evelyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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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

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

Stein, Ben

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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

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Euripides

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The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

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

Thomas Paine

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

Curtis, Donald

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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.

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

Homer

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When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Paul, Jean

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

George S. Patton

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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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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

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