Best 659 quotes in «planning quotes» category

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.

The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?

The opportunity should not be lost, which is afforded by the occasion, for illustrating and enforcing the thought that the universe, its creation, its arrangement, and all of its developing processes, are not due to human planning or oversight, but to the infinite wisdom and power of God.

The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning.

There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.

There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for supply dislocations and price hikes.

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

The structure is there, and will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.

The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

We are better able to bring the same sort of pragmatic planning and analytical pre-work to our values scripts that we would bring to any other business position that we espouse. This approach enables us to be more reasonable, more respectful, less impulsive and more constructive. Risk cannot be eliminated entirely but that is true in all of life.

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

We don't actually plan to launch new businesses over the next few years, but we are planning to take the ones we have into new territories.

We expressed our readiness to join the US-led, international coalition against Daesh with special forces. All of this, however, is still in the discussion phase and in the initial planning phase.

We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.

We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.