Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Planning

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

• I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Thinking, Done

  Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Judging, Political

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Rodney O. Davis, Douglas Lawson Wilson (2008). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.32, University of Illinois Press

• We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Planning, Asks

• Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Speaks Out, Fool

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