Motivational Quotes

Planning

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

Best Quotes about Planning

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Bayol, Ben

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Marden, Orison Swett

It takes time to save time.

Taylor, Joe

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

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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

Knox, Chuck

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Guicciardini, Francesco

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

Trotsky, Leon

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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Churchill, Winston

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

Griggs, Richard E.

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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 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

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Long-range planning works best in the short term

Evelyn, Doug

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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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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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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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Yeats, William Butler

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The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mikita, Stan

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A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

Cairncross, Alec

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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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It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Fowles, Jib

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Gilbert, Steven