Planning Quotes

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.

With goals you can create the future in advance.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

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

The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives. When the temptation is to work twice as hard instead of saying, "We have accomplished our objectives, we have to think again."

Don't live like there's no tomorrow because tomorrow always comes.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.

Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Intentional living is the bridge to significance. At the end of every year, I take time out to reflect and evaluate the events of the previous year - what went well and what needed improvement. From that inventory, I lay out my next year - how I intend to live, make the best use of time and maximize adding value to others. Success asks, 'How can I add value to myself?' Significance asks, 'How can I add value to others?' It is your intention that lends itself to significance.

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be?

I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

Before beginning, prepare carefully.

For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

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

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of present decisions. Decisions exist only in the present. The question that faces the long-range planner is not what we should do tomorrow.

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The more you think, the more time you have.

The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

I think about things to put them in a place where I don't have to think about them anymore. Say if I had a child with a really bad mom, I would have to think more than if I had a child with a good mom. I'm just doing my homework early.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

Prepare far enough in advance, and just about anything is possible.

A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

I wisely started with a map.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue.

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

If it's not scheduled, it's not real.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.