Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Planning

1.

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

2.

One step at a time is good walking.

Proverb, Chinese

3.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Hill, Napoleon

4.

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

5.

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

6.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

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

8.

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

George S. Patton

9.

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

Argenti, John

10.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

11.

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

Griggs, Richard E.

12.

Always be planning something.

Schindler, John A.

13.

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

Hale, Edward Everett

14.

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

Ziglar, Zig

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

18.

Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

19.

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

20.

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

Milne, A. A.

21.

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.

22.

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

Howard, Vernon

23.

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

Nelson, Paula

24.

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

Curtis, Donald

25.

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

Judd, H. Stanley

26.

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.

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.

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

29.

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

Osler, Sir William

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Japanese

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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.

38.

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

Stein, Ben

39.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

40.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

41.

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

42.

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

Euripides

43.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Caine, Mark

44.

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

45.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

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

47.

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

Hugo, Victor

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Caine, Mark