Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Argenti, John

Best Quotes about Planning

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Caine, Mark

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

10.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

11.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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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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

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Euripides

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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.

29.

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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

Homer

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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 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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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