- “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” Abraham Lincoln, American president
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe.” Anatole France
- “If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.” Tariq Siddique
- “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Benjamin Franklin
- “A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple in value every year. I told him: ‘At my age I don’t even buy green bananas.’” Claude Pepper, politician
- “Measure twice, cut once.” Carpenters’ mantra
- “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” Peter Drucker
- “Good intentions might sound nice, but it’s positive actions that matter.” – Tim Fargo
- “Prediction is very difficult. Especially about the future.” Niels Bohr, scientist
- “A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” H. Stanely Judd
- “There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” Douglas H. Everett
- “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.” Gloria Steinam,
- “It’s not the plan that’s important, it’s the planning.” Dr. Gramme Edwards
- “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
- “It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.” Roger von Oech
- “Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” Richard Cushing
- “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” Geoge S. Patton
- “Good business planning is 9 parts execution for every 1 part strategy.” – Tim Berry
- “Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. And the nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.” John Harvey Jones, businessman
- “Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” Alan Lakein, writer
- “A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” Confucius
- “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” – Peter F. Drucker
- “If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.” Abraham Lincoln
- “A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.” John Argenti
- “Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.” – Sun Tzu
- “Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.” Richard I. Winwood
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin
- “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
- “Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.” Napoleon Hill
- “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” Antoine de Saint Exupery
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