Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Griggs, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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 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

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

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

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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.

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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

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Confucius

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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.

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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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

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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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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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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.