Planning Quotes

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Planning = analysis + prioritization + scheduling

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

H Stanely Judd

Plans are things that change.

Fujio Cho

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

Peter Drucker

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Winston Churchill

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

Donald Rumsfeld

Plan for your future because that’s where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

Mark Twain

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan and not quite enough time.

Leonard Bernstein

Most projects start out slowly – and then sort of taper off.

Norman R Augustine

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realised. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Daniel H Burnham

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Winston Churchill

Be prepared.

Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance

Build before you have to. Build knowledge before you have to. Build strength before you have to. Build an emergency fund before you have to. Let internal pressure drive you today, so you can handle external pressure tomorrow.

James Clear

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

Winston Churchill

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Lakein

A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.

Confucius

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

Emerson

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy.

Brian Tracy

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F Kennedy

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Benjamin Disraeli

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Picasso

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tom Landry

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Thomas Edison

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Leonard Bernstein

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Margaret Thatcher

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

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

Thoreau

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Jim Rohn

Setting goals, along with a detailed action plan, has actually changed my life from one cast in frustration to one of purpose.

Catherine Pulsifer

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Dale Carnegie

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

Edwin Louis Cole

The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

Ronald Reagan

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Winston Churchill

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

Dr Phil

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

Gloria Steinem

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napoleon Hill

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

Cervantes

The backbone of success is hard work, determination, good planning, and perseverance.

Mia Hamm

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Victor Hugo

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

J P Morgan

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Bryant McGill