Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Homer

2.

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

3.

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

Knox, Chuck

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb, Chinese

6.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

10.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

11.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

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

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Stein, Ben

18.

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

Paul, Jean

19.

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

20.

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

Nelson, Paula

21.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

22.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

George S. Patton

29.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Argenti, John

33.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

34.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

35.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

37.

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

Nightingale, Earl

38.

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.

39.

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

Trotsky, Leon

40.

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.

41.

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

Patton, George S.

42.

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

43.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

44.

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

45.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

46.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.