Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing."
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Planning
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Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"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."
Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"He who fails to plan is planning to fail."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper."
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"Success is the residue of planning."
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"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."
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"If it's planned, it's boring"
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"Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward."
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"The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise."
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"Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do."
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"Its been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History."
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"The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise."
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"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
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"The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better."
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"A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges."
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"The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything."
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"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."
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"We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination."
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"In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat."
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"If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke."
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"Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action."
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"Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes."
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"One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it."
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"The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao."
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