Motivational Quotes

Planning

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

- Fowles, Jib

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

Euripides

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

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Paul, Jean

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Argenti, John

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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

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

Thomas Paine

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

Homer

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

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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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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

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Edwards, Graeme

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Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Waitley, Denis