Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

3.

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

Lakein, Alan

4.

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

Knox, Chuck

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

8.

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

Kennedy, John F.

9.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

10.

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

Homer

11.

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

George S. Patton

12.

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

Paul, Jean

13.

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.

14.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

16.

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

Nelson, Paula

17.

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

Caine, Mark

18.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

22.

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

Patton, George S.

23.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

24.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Hugo, Victor

25.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Nightingale, Earl

26.

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

Klemme, E. J.

27.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

28.

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

29.

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

Morrisey, George L.

30.

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

31.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

32.

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

33.

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

Argenti, John

34.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

35.

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

36.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

37.

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

38.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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.

40.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Ward, William A.

41.

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

50.

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