Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Argenti, John

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

Homer

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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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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There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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

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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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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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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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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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

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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.