Motivational Quotes

Planning

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Planning

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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

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

Euripides

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Stein, Ben

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Confucius

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Patton, George S.

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Mikita, Stan

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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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

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe