Motivational Quotes

Planning

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

- Maris, Roger

Best Quotes about Planning

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

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.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Osler, Sir William

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

George S. Patton

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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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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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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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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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At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Confucius

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

Coudert, Jo

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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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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Milne, A. A.

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

Nelson, Paula

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Knox, Chuck

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

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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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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Failing to plan is planning to fail.