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

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

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

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Thomas Paine

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

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Nightingale, Earl

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Curtis, Donald

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

Stein, Ben

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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 beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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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

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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Henry, Patrick

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

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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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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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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

40.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Klemme, E. J.

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

46.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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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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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese