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Planning Quotes
"I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up."
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"You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal."
"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
"Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life's endeavour."
"The right priorities in planning will help you to avoid fuss, tiredness and overwork."
"Build yourself a system to achieve your dreams."
"Your life must be planned in such a way that you could get to a stage when you can say every day of your life is being converted to a product."
"The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything."
"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible."
"The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one."
"Management should have goals."
"Divide the target in proportion to the available resources."
"Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks."
"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."
"All achievers had plans that they clearly listed or outlined and run to their fulfillment. If you want to make it as they did, you have to make a plan that defines your purpose; you must write out and clearly define who you are and who you want to be, what you have to do to be that person and how it will be done."
"It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book."
"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero."
"Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive."
"Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning."
"Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment."
"Goals should be broken down into parts, and then think over the plan of their implementation."
"Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future."
"In planning an attack, persons have various roles."
"But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you."
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
"You have to write down all your everyday steps."
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