Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Knox, Chuck

Best Quotes about Planning

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Stein, Ben

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

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.

Mckain, Robert J.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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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 a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Edwards, Graeme

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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Homer

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

Caine, Mark

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.

Morrisey, George L.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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.