Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

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Best Quotes about Planning

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

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

Stein, Ben

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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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

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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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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.

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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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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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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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.

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

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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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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Trotsky, Leon