Motivational Quotes

Planning

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

- Coudert, Jo

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

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

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Knox, Chuck

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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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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

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

Confucius

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Paul, Jean

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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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In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

Coudert, Jo

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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

32.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Stein, Ben

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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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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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