Planning Quotes

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

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Hands

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

  John Grierson

  Loss, Views, Would Be

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

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• A goal without a plan is just a wish.

  Larry Elder

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.62, Macmillan

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• A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Winning, Thinking

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• As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Leadership, Future, Planning Ahead

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• Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

  Jim Rohn

  Time, Paper, Finished

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 20, 2016

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• Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

  Sun Tzu

  Easy, Difficult, Plans

  "The illustrated art of war".

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• You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

  Andy Grove

  Team, Fire, Events

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• Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.

  Bobby Knight

  Pitfalls, Needs, Fixing

  Bob Knight, Bob Hammel (2013). “The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Courage, Regret

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• Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Thinking

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• Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

  Stephen Covey

  War, Tents, Time Management

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Future, Entrepreneur

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• Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

  Mike Tyson

  Money, Failure, Boxing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

  Howard Ruff

  Inspirational, Monday, Time

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 06, 2015

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• Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Planning Ahead, Time Management

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Inspiration, Today

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• Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.

  Bear Bryant

  Successful, People, Easy

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• Before beginning, plan carefully.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Careful, Plans

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Agency, Political

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.350

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