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Planning Quotes by Famous Authors

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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

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