Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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

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

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

Mikita, Stan

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

Cornford, Frances

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Paul, Jean

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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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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Thomas Paine

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

Gilbert, Steven

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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Osler, Sir William

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

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