Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

Milne, A. A.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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.

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Stein, Ben

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

Paul, Jean

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

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Confucius

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

Mikita, Stan

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.