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

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

Argenti, John

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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.

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

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

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

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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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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

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Caine, Mark

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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Howard, Vernon

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Nelson, Paula