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

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

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.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Coudert, Jo

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Thomas Paine

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Stein, Ben

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

Nelson, Paula

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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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.