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Planning Quotes


"The highest return on your investment of your time and energy comes from planning in advance."


"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."


"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."


"IF your mindset does not include a personal life plan, your Life Success Project can NEVER have any chance of real success."



"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


"When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable)."


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



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


"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."


"Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. . The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight."


"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?"



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


"Plan B is nonsense. Successful people come up with plans A, B, C, D . . . all the way to Z. That's how life works. If you'renot constantly looking for and testing solutions, that's probably why you're on the hamster wheel that you're on right now."



"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."


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



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



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



"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."



"Management should have goals."


"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."
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