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

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

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

Morrisey, George L.

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

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

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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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 wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

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

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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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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Homer

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Confucius

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

Paul, Jean

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nelson, Paula

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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.