Quotes about planning

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

Plato on planning   

"One step at a time is good walking."

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

Proverb, Chinese on planning
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"No one was ever lost on a straight road."

Proverb, Indian on planning   

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

Proverb, Japanese on planning
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"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 on planning   

"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 on planning
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"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper."

Rohn, Jim on planning
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"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on planning
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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. on planning   

"Always be planning something."

Schindler, John A. on planning   

"We always plan too much and always think too little."

Schumpeter, Joseph A. on planning   

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

Stein, Ben on planning   

"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 on planning   

"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 on planning   

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification."

Syrus, Publilius on planning   

"It takes time to save time."

Taylor, Joe on planning   

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

Trotsky, Leon on planning   

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

Unknown, Source on planning   

"Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal"

Unknown, Source on planning
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"The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went."

Unknown, Source on planning   

"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."

Unknown, Source on planning   

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

Unknown, Source on planning   

"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"

Unknown, Source on planning   

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

Unknown, Source on planning   

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

Unknown, Source on planning   

"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."

Unknown, Source on planning   

"Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself."

Waitley, Denis on planning   

"An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive."

Walsh, Basil S. on planning   

"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. on planning
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"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."

Wooden, John on planning
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"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."

Yeats, William Butler on planning
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"Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on planning   

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

Ziglar, Zig on planning
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"The plan was smooth on paper, only they forgot about the ravines."

Russian Military Proverb on planning