Quotes About Planning

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

You need more than an idea to run a business

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.

In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

Marketing begins before the product is launched.

An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

Data is great, but strategy is better

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

God wants you to begin to strategise, plan, draw out tactics, methodologies of how your business would take over that particular sphere of business where you are

Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.

Delivering a project isn't difficult. What's difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly