Motivational Quotes

Planning

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Planning

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

George S. Patton

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nelson, Paula

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

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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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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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

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

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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

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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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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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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

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Knox, Chuck

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Euripides

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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Osler, Sir William

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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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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