Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Cushing, Richard C.

Best Quotes about Planning

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

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

Churchill, Winston

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Howard, Vernon

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.

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

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.

It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Euripides

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

Thomas Paine

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Curtis, Donald

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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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

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Confucius

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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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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.