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

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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.

2.

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

Euripides

3.

Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.

Griggs, Richard E.

4.

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

Nightingale, Earl

5.

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

Lakein, Alan

6.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

8.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

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

Argenti, John

10.

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.

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

13.

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

Nightingale, Earl

14.

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

Gilbert, Steven

15.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Thomas A. Edison

17.

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

18.

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

Mikita, Stan

19.

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

Milne, A. A.

20.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

21.

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

22.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

23.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

24.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

25.

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

26.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

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

Morrisey, George L.

28.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

33.

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

34.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

35.

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

Proverb, Japanese

36.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

38.

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

Nelson, Paula

39.

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

40.

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

Coudert, Jo

41.

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

Howard, Vernon

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Caine, Mark

46.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

47.

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

Knox, Chuck

48.

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

49.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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.