Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Argenti, John

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

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

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Curtis, Donald

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Edwards, Graeme

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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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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Stein, Ben

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Paul, Jean

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.