Motivational Quotes

Planning

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Trotsky, Leon

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.

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

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Paul, Jean

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Edwards, Graeme

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

15.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Curtis, Donald

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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 person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

21.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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 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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thomas Paine

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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.