Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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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

2.

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

Confucius

4.

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

Kennedy, John F.

5.

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

Curtis, Donald

6.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

7.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

8.

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.

9.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

10.

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

Edwards, Graeme

11.

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

12.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Nightingale, Earl

19.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

20.

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.

21.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

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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

24.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

25.

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

26.

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

Euripides

27.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

28.

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.

29.

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

Proverb, Japanese

30.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

33.

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

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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

Homer

37.

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

Knox, Chuck

38.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

39.

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

Klemme, E. J.

40.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

41.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Collier, Robert

42.

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

43.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

44.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

49.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

50.

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

Paul, Jean