#Planning Quotes

“When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.”

“Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.”

“We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.”

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

“I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.”

“No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.”

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”

“The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

“In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.”

“Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.”

“If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.”

“Never make a promise without a plan.”

“As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there.”

“It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.”

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

“My core philosophy on winning and motivation is summed up by saying that you were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win.”

“He who fails to plan is planning to fail.”

“Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.”

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

“It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.”

“Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.”

“Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.”

“When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!”

“When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.”

“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?”

“The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.”

“Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.”

“A plan is always successful if the plan is good.”

“When you've got a solid commitment and solid objectives, you've got a much better chance of reaching your goal.”

“If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.”

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

“Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.”

“Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!”

“Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.”

“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.”

“Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it's not working.”

“It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.”

“If you don't have time to invest in a goals program is it possible that you don't have time because you don't have a goals program?”

“You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.”

“Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.”

“People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.”

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

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

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

“Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.”

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”

“Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.”

“If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”

“I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.”