Motivational Quotes

Planning

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Planning

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

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

Homer

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

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

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

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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.

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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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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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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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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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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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gilbert, Steven

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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 loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mikita, Stan

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

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Confucius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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