Motivational Quotes

Planning

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

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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

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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Paul, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Homer

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Curtis, Donald

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Caine, Mark

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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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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

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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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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.

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio