Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Judd, H. Stanley

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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.

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

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

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Edwards, Graeme

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nelson, Paula

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Caine, Mark

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

Stein, Ben

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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

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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.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Patton, George S.

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

Thomas Paine

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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