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

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
~ Ben Bayol

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

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
~ Ambrose Bierce

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
~ Edmund Burke

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

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?
~ Alec Cairncross

To be prepared is half the victory.
~ Miguel De Cervantes

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

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