Quotes about planning




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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..."

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

Argenti, John on planning    Share

"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. on planning    Share

"Most plans are just inaccurate predictions."

Bayol, Ben on planning
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"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 on planning    Share

"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 on planning    Share

"To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result."

Bierce, Ambrose on planning    Share

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell on planning    Share

"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."

Burke, Edmund on planning    Share

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"You can never plan the future by the past."

Burke, Edmund on planning    Share

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

Caine, Mark on planning    Share

"At all times it is better to have a method."

Caine, Mark on planning    Share

"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 on planning    Share

"To be prepared is half the victory."

Cervantes, Miguel De on planning    Share

"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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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 on planning
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"There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"Before beginning, plan carefully."

Cicero, Marcus T. on planning
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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 on planning    Share

"A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."

Confucius on planning
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"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence."

Conrad, Joseph on planning    Share

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"Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life."

Cornford, Frances on planning    Share

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

Coudert, Jo on planning    Share

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

Curtis, Donald on planning    Share

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

Cushing, Richard C. on planning    Share

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on planning    Share

"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 on planning    Share

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

Edwards, Graeme on planning    Share

"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. on planning    Share

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on planning
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"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on planning
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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 on planning    Share

"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 on planning    Share

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

Euripides on planning
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"Long-range planning works best in the short term"

Evelyn, Doug on planning    Share

"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. on planning    Share

"It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial."

Fowles, Jib on planning    Share

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

Franklin, Benjamin on planning
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"If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother."

Gilbert, Steven on planning    Share

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