Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Milne, A. A.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

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.

Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stein, Ben

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Gilbert, Steven

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Harvey-Jones, John

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Morrisey, George L.

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

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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

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

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Patton, George S.

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

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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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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