Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

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Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

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

Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Confucius

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Curtis, Donald

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Waitley, Denis

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

Euripides

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Coudert, Jo

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.