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Planning Quotes
"I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up."
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"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible."
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"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
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"Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning."
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"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
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"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."
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"It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book."
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"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero."
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"Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life's endeavour."
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"The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything."
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"But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you."
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"The importance of reviewing is apparent and proven. However, the majority of people do not do it in their own lives. Do you want to live your best life now? Take deliberate action and begin to REVIEW where you have been, where you are now, and where you would like to be."
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"Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks."
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"I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35."
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"Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment."
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"The highest return on your investment of your time and energy comes from planning in advance."
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"Build yourself a system to achieve your dreams."
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"Your life must be planned in such a way that you could get to a stage when you can say every day of your life is being converted to a product."
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"Where one does not do planning, it is all pure 'discharge'. 'Charge' occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it."
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"Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive."
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"Set realistic terms for its implementation."
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"Better planning guarantees success, ask anyone who has planned a one day event like a wedding. How much planning should you therefore put in the kind of life you want to succeed at?"
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"You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal."
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"Success starts with a good plan. To have it, you have to plan it."
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"There are batons that you will obviously choose to pass on, upon your death, but there are others that would be advisable you pass on whilst you are still alive. Implement as practicable as possible, all succession elements that can be done whilst you are still alive so that you can ensure they are done according to your will/desire."
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"Don't live your life in the future without any planned rewards for your effort and sacrifices today."
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