Planning Quotes

“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.”

“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”

“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”

“Anticipate things that are difficult while they are easy, and do things that would become great while they are small.”

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“One does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.”

“There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.”

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”

“I always go into the deal anticipating the worst. If you plan for the worst, if you can live with the worst, the good will always take care of itself.”

“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.”

“Dinocrates, I appreciate your design as excellent in composition, and I am delighted with it, but I apprehend that anybody who should found a city in that spot would be censured for bad judgement.”

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

Dave Ramsey

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

Victor Hugo

"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

Gloria Steinem

"Imagination is the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man."

“Do not wait until you are thirsty to dig a well.”

Chinese Proverb

“You can never plan the future by the past.”

Edmund Burke

“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”

Isaac Asimov

“Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.”

Peter Drucker

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”

Charles Kettering