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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

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

Homer

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

Euripides

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

Coudert, Jo

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

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

11.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

13.

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

14.

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

Mikita, Stan

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

George S. Patton

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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

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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

33.

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

Nelson, Paula

34.

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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Thomas Paine

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

43.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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At all times it is better to have a method.