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Long-range planning is not possible. It's a short-range planning situation.


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DOUG EVELYN Long-range planning works best in the short term.
DOUG EVELYN Long range planning works best in the short term.
DOUG EVELYN The basic freeway system was really important to this community in terms of its long-range planning ...
JEFF ROBERTS Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
PETER DRUCKER The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
WARREN BENNIS The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
WARREN G. BENNIS The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
WARREN BENNIS The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.
SOURCE UNKNOWN It's better for courtship to be long on planning & short on passion ,than for it to be long on passi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) This is really about helping rebuild a community and have people not just give money, but goods and ...
BILL EASTBURN You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.
CHARLES NOBLE You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
CHARLES C. NOBLE He is planning on introducing a bill shortly.
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JACK WELCH cease long-range missile development, production and its export program.
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LARRY JOHNSON well within the range of what is realistically possible.
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HEIDI RANGE I've had enough of people thinking we're all bitches,
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ADAM SCHOENFELD This is not smart planning.
CONNIE WILLIAMS This is really just some short-term consolidation. We are inside of yesterday's range.
TIM EVANS The mayor has frequently urged us to proceed as quickly as possible, ... I believe that New Yorkers ...
LARRY SILVERSTEIN Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal
SOURCE UNKNOWN Long-range, that's probably the best option.
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KA CHINERY Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and e...
PETER SINGER Planning is critical. . . . Business continuity and contingency planning is what this is all about.
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CHINESE PROVERB When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for lif...
CHINESE PROVERBS Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety
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CHINESE PROVERB That was one of our long-range goals for the season.
DAN DOUGHERTY Well, I'm not planning to, no.
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SHARON STONE The euro doesn't look like getting out of its recent range.
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CHARLES SOULE If a nation does not plan her future, she is planning to fail
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LINDSEY NELSEN We really want ... to use this as a starting point for doing some long-term planning.
DANNY JORDAN We know we can't prevent this from happening, but we can control the situation by planning for it.
LUCY CALDWELL The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You do the planning or life will do the planning for you.
STEVEN ESPINOSA Vision leads to proper planning and proper planning leads to successful completion.
FARSHAD ASL I'm not against cows and the open range. But this is not rangeland anymore.
SUE KILLIAN The biggest reason for business failure is lack of planning. We recommend that people do their plann...
JOHN MILLER No one in the private sector would be taking this long to complete planning,
BOB BALDWIN Everything will stay the same. We'll focus on planning for our long-term future.
ZYGI WILF Adventure is just bad planning.
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WARREN BENNIS I'm planning a catastrophe.
LEONARD COHEN Overall, the FBI needs a systemic and integrated approach to planning and implementing improved huma...
DICK THORNBURGH Each area has been assigned a planner to provide professional planning guidance to each planning wor...
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MARCUS WHITE My range is limited.
BOB DYLAN As long as [the fumes] are out of the flammable range, then that's a good thing
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DAVE REED Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER “The essence of planning is EXECUTION”
FARSHAD ASL Planning is worrying based on facts
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It's just the normal range of ups and downs.
BILL EVANS Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not pl...
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BERTRAND RUSSELL We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends wi...
RUSSELL LYNES Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the se...
BERTRAND RUSSELL It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en...
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