Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Curtis, Donald

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

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Edwards, Graeme

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

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

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

Euripides

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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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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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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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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Mikita, Stan

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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Caine, Mark

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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.