Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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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

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

Euripides

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

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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

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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.

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

Knox, Chuck

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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