Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Argenti, John

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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

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

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

Caine, Mark

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Euripides

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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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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

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

Homer

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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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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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PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Patton, George S.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.