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Planning Quotes


"Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream."


"Why leave your success up to dumb luck or accident when you can take a stand, make a plan, and be proactive in your pursuits and possibilities?"


"Be specific about what you want. Decide, define, describe, discuss and develop your plans and then act on them."


"Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure."


"Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future."


"In planning an attack, persons have various roles."


"You have to write down all your everyday steps."


"The right priorities in planning will help you to avoid fuss, tiredness and overwork."


"The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one."


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


"Management should have goals."


"In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen. As the day approached, my warm bed and comfortable house grew increasingly desirable and my dear wife incalculably precious. To give these up for three months for the terrors of the uncomfortable and unknown seemed crazy. I didn't want to go. Something had to happen to forbid my going, but it didn't."


"Divide the target in proportion to the available resources."


"All achievers had plans that they clearly listed or outlined and run to their fulfillment. If you want to make it as they did, you have to make a plan that defines your purpose; you must write out and clearly define who you are and who you want to be, what you have to do to be that person and how it will be done."


"We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out."


"The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan 'b'. For those troubling occasions when plan 'b' didn't work, he would strive to also have a plan 'c' in place. In short, he was the kind of man who always had something up his sleeve besides his funny bone. The pilot, his trusted second man gave him a worried look. "What do we do now?"


"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."


"Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream."


"You'll be hard-pressed to reach your goals if you don't map out where you're going. Take time to navigate your life."


"Before you start working hard on your goals and dreams, be very sure that you have the right information. Working hard on the wrong plan or information would never take you anywhere. Learn from the great people that came before you."


"Goals should be broken down into parts, and then think over the plan of their implementation."


"First organizing it on paper isn't just academic, it's an applied prerequisite for manifestation."
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