Motivational Quotes

Planning

Long-range planning works best in the short term

- Evelyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

George S. Patton

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Coudert, Jo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Thomas Paine

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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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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Curtis, Donald

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Paul, Jean

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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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

Nelson, Paula

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances