“I believe that life is a journey and for me to tell you my plans; things never go according to plan.”
Kevin Gates, Life, Planning
“There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.”
Will Smith, Planning
“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.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Planning
“Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.”
Harry Truman, Planning
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Richard Branson, The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
Richard Branson, Planning, Opportunities
“Lacking an analytical approach, many of our comrades do not want to go deeply into complex matters, to analyse and study them over and over again, but like to draw simple conclusions which are either absolutely affirmative or absolutely negative. . . . From now on we should remedy this state of affairs.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman
Mao Zedong, Planning
“Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it … Start doing it.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Goals, Planning
“There were no more questions. The most important question had been answered: Why? Once I analyzed the mission and understood for myself that critical piece of information, I could then believe in the mission. If I didn’t believe in it, there was no way I could possibly convince the SEALs in my task unit to believe in it.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Management, Planning
“Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Management, Planning
“don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.”
― Jocko Willink, The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Management, Planning
Quotes on Planning
“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.”
Margaret Thatcher, Planning, Work
“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
Margaret Thatcher, Goals, Planning
“Make time for planning; Wars are won in the general’s tent.”
Stephen Covey, Planning, Anger and Fighting
“You can do an awful lot by writing down what happened to you and thinking it through.”
Jordan Peterson, Planning
“You must recognize what you are about to do, highlight what you do not like about it, and spend time visualizing each and every obstacle you can.”
David Goggins, Planning
"Spring is the time of plans and projects."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Planning
"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."
Jim Rohn, Life, Planning
"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Planning
"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."
Zig Ziglar, Success, Opportunities, Planning
"It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."
Les Brown, Opportunities, Planning
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Planning
"Half the fun is plan to plan."
Tim Burton, Planning
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
Peter Drucker, Planning
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans."
Peter Drucker, Planning
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
Confucius, Planning
"Take care with the end as you do with the beginning."