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.

19.

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

Knox, Chuck

20.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

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.

22.

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

Osler, Sir William

23.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

24.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

29.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

34.

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

Nelson, Paula

35.

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

36.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Klemme, E. J.

43.

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

44.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Cushing, Richard C.