Motivational Quotes

Planning

We always plan too much and always think too little.

- Schumpeter, Joseph A.

Best Quotes about Planning

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Knox, Chuck

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

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Osler, Sir William

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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

Argenti, John

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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Euripides

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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

George S. Patton

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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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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.

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel