Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

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

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Stein, Ben

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

Euripides

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Coudert, Jo

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Klemme, E. J.

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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

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

George S. Patton

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

Edwards, Graeme