Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Mikita, Stan

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Coudert, Jo

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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.

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

Argenti, John

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

Stein, Ben

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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

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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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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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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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Knox, Chuck

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