Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

2.

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

Osler, Sir William

3.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

4.

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

5.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

6.

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

Homer

7.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

8.

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

Proverb, Japanese

9.

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

10.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

Edwards, Graeme

13.

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

14.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

15.

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

16.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.

Gilbert, Steven

19.

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

Patton, George S.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

24.

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

25.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Ziglar, Zig

26.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

27.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

29.

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.

30.

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

Nightingale, Earl

31.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

32.

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

33.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

34.

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

Coudert, Jo

35.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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

37.

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

Trotsky, Leon

38.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

39.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

40.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

41.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

42.

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

43.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon