Motivational Quotes

Planning

We always plan too much and always think too little.

- Schumpeter, Joseph A.

Best Quotes about Planning

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nightingale, Earl

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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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

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

George S. Patton

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

Nelson, Paula

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

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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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Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb, Indian

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Knox, Chuck

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Lakein, Alan

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

Homer

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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Howard, Vernon

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

Caine, Mark

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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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One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Paul, Jean

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We always plan too much and always think too little.

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Edwards, Graeme

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

Cushing, Richard C.

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

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Klemme, E. J.

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Stein, Ben

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas