Planning Quotes

Be candid with everyone.

Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.

Quality planning consists of developing the products and processes required to meet customer's needs

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Disappointment requires adequate planning.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

I'm very structured. I like planning things out. I get frustrated when they don't go according to plan.

I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?

Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

Falling in love was the easy part; planning a wedding - yikes!

The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

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.

It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

Success is the residue of planning.

Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.

Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

If it's planned, it's boring

The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.