Planning

(16 votes)   To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

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(283 votes)   One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
1819-1881, American Author

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(193 votes)   A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

John Argenti

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(187 votes)   Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

William A. Ward
1921-,

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(146 votes)   The short- term plan, then, is an operative plan defining goals in writing and clearly indicating how these goals are to be carried out...

American Management

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(145 votes)   A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(141 votes)   No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Indian Proverbs
Sayings of Indian Origin

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(108 votes)   A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(102 votes)   We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(93 votes)   When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well.

Japanese Proverbs
Sayings of Japanese Origin

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(89 votes)   The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(88 votes)   Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Robert J. Mckain

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(87 votes)   Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(78 votes)   Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

John Wooden
1910-, American Basketball Coach

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(78 votes)   There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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