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#1

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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#2

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

tags: future, planning

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#3

“If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.”
― Yogi Berra

tags: goals, integrity, planning, truism

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#4

“I’ve got a sizeable retirement nest egg. It’s an ostrich egg, and it’s going to make an omelet so big that it’ll produce enough leftovers for decades. ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

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#5

“…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”
― Chaim Potok, Davita's Harp

tags: chaim, davita, harp, past, planning, potok, understand

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#6

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: planning, plans, strategy, war

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#7

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: planning

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#8

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
― Peter F. Drucker

tags: commitment, persistence, planning, resolve

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#9

“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

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#10

“If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, journey, motivational, planning, success

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#12

“It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

tags: destiny, life, planning

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#13

“When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination, the possibility for success is limitless and arrival at the destination is inevitable.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, destination, inspirational, motivational, planning, success

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#14

“I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”
― Jack Campbell, Dauntless

tags: frustration, motivation, planning

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#16

“In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
― Rose Tremain

tags: endings, planning, writing

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#17

“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

tags: failure, history, planning, reconsideration, society, success, values

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#18

“Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

tags: action, consciousness, emotions, feel, impulse, planning, quotes, think

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#19

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: planning, plans, plotting, process

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#20

“The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

tags: clever, planning, planning-something, problem

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#21

“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”
― Joanne Harris, Runemarks

tags: foresight, motive, planning, purpose, strategy

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#22

“Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.”
― Bryant McGill

tags: direction, forethought, ideas, planning, purpose, thinking

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#23

“Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.”
― Max McKeown, The Strategy Book

tags: ceo, collaboration, innovation, leadership, management, planning, strategic, strategy, teamwork

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#24

“Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine.”
― Bob Carter

tags: planning, poor-planning

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#25

“The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.”
― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two

tags: living, planning

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#26

“Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.”
― Habeeb Akande

tags: business, future, invest, money, planning, time

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#27

“This is the best bad plan we have, sir.”
― chris terrio

tags: argo, humor, planning

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#28

“The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.”
― James Marcus Bach, Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success

tags: education, learning, opportunity, planning

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#29

“The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.”
― Raheel Farooq

tags: intelligence, planning, principles, wisdom

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#30

“Your future is always more valuable than today, the sooner you realise that the better”
― Steve Douglas, The Aussie Expat: The Luckiest Person on Earth

tags: expats, financial-planning, future-inspirational, future-plans, planning

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#31

“An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.”
― Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones

tags: planning, success

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#32

“That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.”
― Kelli Jae Baeli, Also Known as Armchair Detective

tags: foolish, futility, humor, parachute, planning

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