Motivational Quotes

Planning

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Griggs, Richard E.

2.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

3.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

4.

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

5.

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.

6.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

7.

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

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

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

10.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

11.

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

Ziglar, Zig

12.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

13.

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

14.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

16.

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

Curtis, Donald

17.

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

Kennedy, John F.

18.

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.

19.

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

Euripides

20.

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.

21.

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

Confucius

22.

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

Klemme, E. J.

23.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

24.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

25.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

27.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

28.

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

29.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

30.

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

31.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

32.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

33.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Lakein, Alan

41.

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

42.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Mikita, Stan

47.

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

48.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

49.

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

Nightingale, Earl

50.

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

Knox, Chuck