Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

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

Edwards, Graeme

3.

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

4.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

5.

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.

6.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

7.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

10.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

11.

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

Mikita, Stan

12.

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.

13.

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

Argenti, John

14.

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

15.

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

Coudert, Jo

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

22.

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

George S. Patton

23.

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

Osler, Sir William

24.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

29.

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

34.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

Trotsky, Leon

36.

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

37.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

39.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

40.

Always be planning something.