Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about 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.

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.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

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

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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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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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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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

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

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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

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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Knox, Chuck

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Patton, George S.

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It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Homer

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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.