Motivational Quotes

Planning

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Planning

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Trotsky, Leon

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

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

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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.

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Thomas Paine

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mckain, Robert J.