Quotes about Planning

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. "
-George S. Patton

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
-Thomas A. Edison

"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."
-Thomas A. Edison

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification."
-Publilius Syrus

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work."
-Daniel H. Burnham

"Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning."
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
-Joseph Campbell

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."
-Thomas Paine

"Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment."
-Homer

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action."
-Napoleon Hill

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die."
-Daniel H. Burnham

"Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."
-Sun Tzu

"He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign."
-Victor Hugo

"Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing."
-E. L. Doctorow

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."
-Alexander Hamilton

"We're planning a series of speakers, including some geared to the pilot community and others more geared to the general population and aviation history."
-Teresa Day

"We've scared the leaders a lot so far. It's exciting. I got in on the ground floor of the planning and am enjoying that."
-Bob Stiles

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
-Gloria Steinem

"We are putting our media planning and buying into review. It's part of our best-practice approach; we periodically review all of our agencies."
-Peter Marino

"All of the plans have assumed that people have cars and they speak English. If you forget the population in your planning, the population will ignore your plans."
-Havidan Rodriguez

"There is certainly a sense of urgency to fix everything now, but the planning has not been thorough for some of these schools."
-Clara Hemphill

"It's a long-term planning tool. It should not be considered an assessment of policies just passed."
-Laurie Lachance

"We're planning to move where hopefully we can avoid a situation like this in the future."
-Joe Riley

"It's been crazy. I've got a new job, we're looking for a home in Vegas and, in the middle of all of this, we're planning a wedding in Indianapolis. But I'm not complaining. It's all good."
-Carlos Diaz

"Most people think that when it's time to buy a car, they should immediately go to the dealerships to find what they want. In reality, there's a lot of planning that should be done first."
-Donna Kane

"Family planning is a matter of personal choice, which might differ according to economic and social conditions."
-Sheikh Tantawi

"We're planning on making that album. But besides that, it's a lot of fun."
-Dominic Suchyta

"We're planning on opening up two modular schools next year to use until the replacement schools can be built."
-James Hoyle