Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Ward, William A.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

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.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hugo, Victor

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Japanese

14.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

15.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

16.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

17.

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

Curtis, Donald

18.

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

19.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

20.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

22.

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.

23.

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

Paul, Jean

24.

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

Mikita, Stan

25.

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

26.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

27.

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

Stein, Ben

28.

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

Knox, Chuck

37.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

38.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

40.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

41.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

43.

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

Nelson, Paula

44.

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

45.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

46.

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

47.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

49.

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

Ziglar, Zig

50.

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

Cushing, Richard C.