Motivational Quotes

Planning

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.

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

Ziglar, Zig

2.

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

3.

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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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.

5.

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

6.

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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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

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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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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

10.

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

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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

Stein, Ben

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

15.

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

16.

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

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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

18.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

19.

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

Edwards, Graeme

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

You win not by chance, but by preparation.

Maris, Roger

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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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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

24.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Rohn, Jim

25.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

26.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

27.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

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

30.

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

Osler, Sir William

31.

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

Knox, Chuck

32.

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

33.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides

34.

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

Curtis, Donald

35.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

36.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

38.

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.

39.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

40.

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

41.

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

Milne, A. A.

42.

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

Argenti, John