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Planning Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “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

Wisdom, Planning, Progress, Success, Vision

2. “Save when you can and not when you have to.”

John D. Rockefeller

Savings, Finance, Planning, Wealth, Security

3. “His idea is to get your team together and pretend that your product has failed. That’s right: failed, cratered, imploded, or “went aloha oe,” as we say in Hawaii. You ask the team to come up with all the reasons why the failure occurred. Then each member has to state one reason until every reason is on a list. The next step is to figure out ways to prevent every reason from occurring.”

Guy Kawasaki

Failure, Strategy, Problem-solving, Planning, Teamwork

4. “Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.”

Margaret Fuller

Preparation, Life, Planning, Ruin, Balance

5. “Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.”

Steven Wright

Paradox, Planning, Spontaneity, Irony, Humor

6. “A plan is the only way to get to any point in life. If you do not have a plan, you do not have any chance of getting anywhere.”

Ankur Warikoo

Planning, Direction, Purpose, Progress, Strategy

7. “If a manager's response to "by when do you need this?" is ASAP, then they really do not know by when they need it!”

Ankur Warikoo

Management, Clarity, Communication, Priority, Planning

8. “Don’t make your 30s hard for you by making your 20s easy for you.”

Ankur Warikoo

Effort, Future, Planning, Youth, Responsibility

9. “Plan in real-time Execute in time lapse Reflect in slow motion”

Ankur Warikoo

Planning, Execution, Reflection, Pace, Mindfulness

10. “To plan for a more distant future does not mean to tie oneself to dogmatic programs.”

Alvin Toffler

Planning, Future, Flexibility, Strategy, Adaptation

11. “You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”

Alvin Toffler

Thinking, Vision, Direction, Planning, Growth

12. “We should never finish a 20-year program in two years.”

Jack Ma

Patience, Planning, Success, Strategy, Long-term

13. “As soon as you awake, in order Lay the actions to be done the coming day.”

Pythagoras

Planning, Action, Organization, Awareness, Preparation

14. “The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.”

Plutarch

Strategy, Leadership, Planning, Precision, Execution

15. “Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term.”

Scott Adams

Time, Freedom, Planning, Priorities, Success

16. “There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don’t let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it’s not like I’m just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.”

Scott Adams

Deadlines, Time Management, Stress, Productivity, Planning

17. “Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Planning, Action, Success, Execution, Determination

18. “Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise counsel keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.”

Chanakya

Secrets, Strategy, Caution, Wisdom, Planning

19. “Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be, and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”

Chanakya

Work, Questions, Success, Decision, Planning

20. “Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, “what fear has a rich man of calamity?” Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.”

Chanakya

Wealth, Caution, Planning, Security, Wisdom

21. “Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.”

Daniel J. Boorstin

History, Future, Planning, Knowledge, Perspective

22. “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

Stendhal

Planning, Action, Decision, Time, Success

23. “Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”

Seneca

Direction, Purpose, Clarity, Planning, Success

24. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”

Earl Nightingale

Planning, Success, Direction, Goal-Setting, Determination

25. “As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.”

Earl Nightingale

Retirement, Planning, Success, Future, Financial Stability

26. “Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don’t have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.”

Chogyam Trungpa

Future, Present, Awareness, Planning, Balance

27. “In an ideal world, you raise a lot of money and then there is a downturn, before you start investing so you get better deals. But it doesn't always happen that way.”

Naval Ravikant

Investment, Strategy, Business, Finance, Planning

28. “I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

Caution, Survival, Strategy, Risk, Planning

29. “All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I’d always hoped for something better than that.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Hope, Patterns, Planning, Uncertainty, Possibility

30. “The time to prepare isn’t after you have been given the opportunity. It’s long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it’s too late to prepare.”

John Wooden

Preparation, Opportunity, Readiness, Success, Planning

31. “Build shelter against a rainy day.”

John Wooden

Preparation, Caution, Planning, Security, Wisdom

32. “There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.”

John Wooden

Work, Effort, Planning, Results, Success

33. “Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.”

John Wooden

Leadership, Organization, Planning, Goals, Success

34. “It’s too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.”

John Wooden

Preparation, Opportunity, Success, Timing, Planning

35. “I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day.”

John Wooden

Preparation, Planning, Success, Discipline, Strategy

36. “We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.”

John Wooden

Adaptability, Flexibility, Planning, Change, Resilience

37. “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”

John Wooden

Preparation, Planning, Success, Discipline, Mindset

38. “Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.”

Henry Kissinger

Decision Making, Strategy, Complexity, Flexibility, Planning

39. “There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.”

Francis Bacon

Wisdom, Timing, Success, Planning, Strategy

40. “In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.”

Francis Bacon

Patience, Negotiation, Planning, Success, Growth

41. “Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.”

Francis Bacon

Planning, Consistency, Expectation, Order, Discipline

42. “Plan your work – work your plan. Lack of system produces that ‘I’m swamped’ feeling.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Planning, Productivity, Organization, Work, Efficiency

43. “We’re the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.”

Charlie Munger

Strategy, Patience, Success, Planning, Competition

44. “We have the same problem as everyone else: It’s very hard to predict the future...”

Charlie Munger

Uncertainty, Future, Prediction, Planning, Risk

45. “Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America.”

Charlie Munger

Strategy, Business, Planning, Decision Making, Risk

46. “Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.”

Rick Warren

Birth, Life, Purpose, God, Planning

47. “The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.”

Rick Warren

Short-term Thinking, Society, Consequences, Vision, Planning

48. “A goal without a method is nonsense.”

W. Edwards Deming

Goal, Method, Planning, Strategy, Execution

49. “Management is prediction.”

W. Edwards Deming

Management, Prediction, Planning, Leadership, Strategy

50. “Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, and of machine-time, all of which raise the manufacturer’s cost and price that the purchaser must pay. The consumer is not always willing to subsidize this waste. The inevitable result is loss of market. Loss of market begets unemployment.”

W. Edwards Deming

Management, Planning, Waste, Costs, Market Loss

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