Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Milne, A. A.

Best Quotes about Planning

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Paul, Jean

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

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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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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 people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Homer

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Stein, Ben

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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.

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track