Motivational Quotes

Planning

We always plan too much and always think too little.

- Schumpeter, Joseph A.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Mikita, Stan

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Milne, A. A.

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.

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.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Homer

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Thomas Paine

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

Confucius

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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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

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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.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Argenti, John

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances