Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Euripides

4.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

5.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

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

Morrisey, George L.

16.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

17.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

18.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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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

22.

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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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.

25.

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

Nelson, Paula

26.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

27.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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

29.

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

Gilbert, Steven

30.

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

31.

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.

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Argenti, John

36.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

37.

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

38.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

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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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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Confucius

45.

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

Thomas Paine

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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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

50.

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

Stein, Ben