Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

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 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

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

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.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Coudert, Jo

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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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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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 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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.