Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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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.

2.

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

Patton, George S.

3.

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.

4.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

7.

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

Confucius

8.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

9.

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

Ziglar, Zig

10.

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

11.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

16.

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

17.

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

18.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Morrisey, George L.

22.

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

Nelson, Paula

23.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

24.

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.

25.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Caine, Mark

31.

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

Osler, Sir William

32.

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

33.

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

Paul, Jean

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

36.

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

Homer

37.

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

38.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

39.

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

40.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

41.

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

42.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

43.

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.

44.

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

Cushing, Richard C.

45.

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

Hugo, Victor

46.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

47.

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.