Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

2.

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

Nelson, Paula

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

6.

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

Gilbert, Steven

7.

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

8.

To be prepared is half the victory.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

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

10.

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

Coudert, Jo

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

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

14.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

15.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

16.

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

17.

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

Edwards, Graeme

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

20.

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

Paul, Jean

21.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

22.

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

23.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Stone, W. Clement

30.

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

31.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

32.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Peale, Norman Vincent

33.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

34.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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.

36.

A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

Argenti, John

37.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas A. Edison

38.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Trotsky, Leon

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

It's never too late to start planning for the future.

41.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

42.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

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

Nightingale, Earl

44.

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

45.

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

Osler, Sir William

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Caine, Mark

49.

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.

50.

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