Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Confucius

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

Knox, Chuck

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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 step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Coudert, Jo

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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Ward, William A.

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Homer