Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Morrisey, George L.

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Paine

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

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

Stein, Ben

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

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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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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Patton, George S.

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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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