Motivational Quotes

Planning

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

- Guicciardini, Francesco

Best Quotes about Planning

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.

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

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Ziglar, Zig

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Patton, George S.

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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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 takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

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

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Caine, Mark

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

Euripides