Quotes About Planning

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping for magical tactics instead of changing their entire mindset.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

The fact is that if you don't have an effective, efficient plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.