Planning Quotes

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Joseph Schumpeter

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.

Jim Rohn

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Jim Rohn

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

Euripides

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

Napoleon Hill

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Napoleon Hill

Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Jib Fowles

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

Chuck Knox

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

E. J. Klemme

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

Paul J. Meyer

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.

Hillel J. Einhorn

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Benjamin Franklin

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

Benjamin Franklin

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?

George A. Ford

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

Ambrose Bierce

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

Tom Landry

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

William Osler

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

General George Patton

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

General George Patton