Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Milne, A. A.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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.

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

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

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

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

Daniel H. Burnham

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

Klemme, E. J.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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.

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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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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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Landry, Tom

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Curtis, Donald

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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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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 wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel