Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Planning

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

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

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

Edwards, Graeme

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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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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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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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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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 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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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.

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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 is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Euripides

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco