Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

2.

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.

3.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

4.

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

Thomas Paine

5.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

6.

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

7.

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

Nightingale, Earl

8.

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

9.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

12.

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Meyer, Paul J.

13.

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

Nelson, Paula

14.

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

Confucius

15.

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

16.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

17.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

25.

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

Caine, Mark

26.

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

27.

A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

28.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Edwards, Graeme

33.

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

Lakein, Alan

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

38.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Paul, Jean

42.

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

43.

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

44.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

Knox, Chuck

46.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

47.

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

Euripides

48.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

49.

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

50.

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.