Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Euripides

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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.

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

Knox, Chuck

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Mikita, Stan

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

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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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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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

Reed, Scott

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Homer

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.