Quotes About Planning, Preparation, and Strategy
Turn your vision into reality with the power of planning! Here’s what great minds have to say about it.
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
— Larry Elder
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The backbone of success is hard work, determination, good planning, and perseverance.”
— Mia Hamm
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
— Winston Churchill
“If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters… 204 if you’re in Japan.”
― Claire Cook
“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”
— Harvey Mackay
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
— John F. Kennedy
“The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.”
— Lil Wayne
“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”
— George S. Patton
“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
— Bobby Unser
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
― Benjamin Disraeli
“Make time for planning. Wars are won in the general’s tent.”
— Stephen Covey
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!”
― Brian Tracy
“Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.”
— Donald Rumsfeld
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”
— Alan Lakein
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Plan your next move because every step contributes towards your goal.”
― Sukant Ratnakar
“A good plan is like a road map; it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.”
— H. Stanley Judd
“Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance.”
― Stephen Keague
“Everybody has to take curveballs as they come in life and hopefully have the ability to adjust their plans.”
— Chris Sullivan
“Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.”
― Chuck Knox
“The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“Always plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”
— Richard Cushing
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
― Alexander Graham Bell
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
— Napolean Bonaparte
“Plan for what is difficult while it is easy; do what is great while it is small.”
— Sun Tzu
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
― Leonard Bernstein
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
― George S. Patton
“Plan your work and work your plan.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.”
— Winston Churchill
“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
— John Wooden
“The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.”
— Juma Inkangaa
“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.”
― Fitzhugh Dodson
“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
— Amelia Earhart
“Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You’ll get there, I promise.”
— Zoe Koplowitz
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
— Arthur Ashe
“I don’t know the secret to success, but I’m pretty sure the closest thing is preparation.”
— Michelle Kwan