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Get Inspired for Success Strategy 3: Take Effective Action

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  

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

- John Argenti  

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.  

- Bernard M Baruch  

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.  

- Arnold Bennett  

We need a sense of the value of time, that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.  

- Arnold Bennett  

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.  

- Christian Nevell Bovee  

You can never plan the future by the past.  

- Edmund Burke  

At all times it is better to have a method.  

- Mark Caine  

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.  

- Mark Caine  

To be prepared is half the victory.  

- Miguel De Cervantes  

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.  

- Winston Churchill  

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.  

- Winston Churchill  

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.  

- Winston Churchill  

Before beginning, plan carefully.  

- Marcus T Cicero  

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.  

- Robert Collier  

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.  

- Confucius  

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.  

- Jo Coudert  

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.  

- Donald Curtis  

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.  

- Richard C Cushing  

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.  

- Benjamin Disraeli  

First you write down your goal, your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.  

- Fitzhugh Dodson  

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.  

- Graeme Edwards  

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.  

- Dwight D Eisenhower  

Plans are nothing, planning is everything.  

- Dwight D Eisenhower  

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.  

- Euripides  

Long-range planning works best in the short term  

- Doug Evelyn  

Some self-confronting questions, Where do I want to be at any given time? How am I going to get there? What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?. What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?  

- George A Ford  

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.  

- Benjamin Franklin  

Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.  

- Richard E Griggs  

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough  

- Edward Everett Hale  

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.  

- Napoleon Hill  

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.  

- Napoleon Hill  

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?  

- Vernon Howard  

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.  

- Elbert Hubbard  

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.  

- Victor Hugo  

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.  

- Victor Hugo  

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.  

- Samuel Johnson  

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.  

- H Stanley Judd  

The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.  

- Thomas A Kempis  

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.  

- John F Kennedy  

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.  

- Chuck Knox  

Failing to plan is planning to fail.  

- Alan Lakein  

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.  

- Alan Lakein  

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.  

- Tom Landry  

A good system shortens the road to the goal.  

- Orison Swett Marden  

You win not by chance, but by preparation.  

- Roger Maris  

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them.  

- Robert J Mckain  

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.  

- Robert J Mckain  

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.  

- Mignon Mclaughlin  

Plan your progress carefully, hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.  

- Paul J Meyer  

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.  

- Stan Mikita  

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.  

- A A Milne  

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.  

- John Pierpont Morgan  

Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal.  

- George L Morrisey  

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the ''who, what, where, why, and how much... ''  

- Paula Nelson  

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.  

- Earl Nightingale  

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.  

- Earl Nightingale  

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.  

- Sir William Osler  

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.  

- George S Patton  

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

- George S Patton  

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.  

- Jean Paul  

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.  

- Norman Vincent Peale  

The beginning is the most important part of the work.  

- Plato  

One step at a time is good walking.  

- Chinese Proverb  

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.  

- Chinese Proverb  

No one was ever lost on a straight road.  

- Indian Proverb  

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

- Japanese Proverb  

With a definite, step-by-step plan, ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track…  

- Scott Reed  

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  

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.  

- Jim Rohn  

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.  

- Eleanor Roosevelt  

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.  

- William E Rothschild  

Always be planning something.  

- John A Schindler  

We always plan too much and always think too little.  

- Joseph A Schumpeter  

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.  

- Ben Stein  

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.  

- Gloria Steinem  

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.  

- W Clement Stone  

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.  

- Publilius Syrus  

It takes time to save time.  

- Joe Taylor  

Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.  

- Source Unknown  

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.  

- Source Unknown  

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal  

- Source Unknown  

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.  

- Source Unknown  

PLANNING VERSUS REACTING. How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.  

- Source Unknown  

Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are  

- Source Unknown  

Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.  

- Source Unknown  

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.  

- Source Unknown  

It's never too late to start planning for the future.  

- Source Unknown  

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.  

- Denis Waitley  

An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.  

- Basil S Walsh  

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  

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.  

- John Wooden  

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.  

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga  

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.  

- Zig Ziglar  

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