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.

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Caine, Mark

24.

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

25.

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

George S. Patton

26.

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

27.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Patton, George S.

32.

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

Confucius

33.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

35.

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.

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

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

Euripides

38.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

39.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

40.

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.

41.

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

Morrisey, George L.

42.

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

43.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

47.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

48.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

49.

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

50.

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