Quotes about Planning

The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there.

Drawing up plans such as these diagrams is the easy part. I did it thousands of times. Creating a successful organization with people who execute the plans at a level of Competitive Greatness—now, that's the challenge of leadership.

Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty (Proverbs 21:5).

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Chose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Short cuts make for long delays.

I will not move my army without onions.

fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.

Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.

He allows our small plans to fail so that His big dream for us can prevail. So keep planning like it depends on you, but make sure you pray like it depends on God. Prayer is the alpha and omega of planning. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.

Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in two years, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years.