Quotes About Planning

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Later, as we neared the $1 billion in revenue mark, we didn't focus on $1 billion in revenue, but what we needed to do to get to $10 billion in revenue.

Never make a plan without knowing as much as you can about your enemy. Never be afraid to change your plans when you receive new information. Never believe you know everything. Never wait to know everything. —Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan.

Pat yourself on the back for what you do get done. Use to-do lists, alarm clocks, and other ways of booby-trapping your environment. Form collaborations that will prevent you from never accomplishing anything. Above all, enjoy life.

Yes, my bug-out bag is packed," Faith said and grimaced. "'Where's your bug-out bag?' 'Is your bug-out bag packed?' 'What's your inventory?' 'Why did I get the insane parents?

hundred and forty-three hours to departure.

So I've decided," Taryn said. "Do it, but be clever about it. Don't give yourself away. Call from a cold phone.

AFTER THE CALL from Weather, Lucas showered and shaved, put a Band-Aid and some antiseptic on his index finger, above the knuckle, where he'd picked up a splinter earlier in the day, and put on some fresh clothes. He took ten minutes to vacuum up an accumulation of Asian ladybugs that had found their way through the windowless addition, and bagged up the garbage and trash. He called Jimi to tell her he'd be gone for a short time, no more than a few days.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

You improvised." "Yes. The one advantage we had, which is a thing I brought to the enterprise, was the understanding that the plan was not the goal. The goal was the goal, and we were going to get it however we could. And if it meant changing our plans, sometimes in the middle of executing them, then we would.

I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.

But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.

and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course, excludes, those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by an ogreish professional hostess. These are not parties at all but acts and demonstrations, about as spontaneous as peristalsis and as interesting as it's end product.

In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come in ten years, it is the clothes that will be made very soon. If ever a people took its energy from hope, it is the Russian people.

In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen. As the day approached, my warm bed and comfortable house grew increasingly desirable and my dear wife incalculably precious. To give these up for three months for the terrors of the uncomfortable and unknown seemed crazy. I didn't want to go. Something had to happen to forbid my going, but it didn't.

In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen.

People didn't really believe in war even while they planned it. The Salinas Valley lived about as it always had.

The basic plan of the building was reached in four weeks.

The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there.

The Prime Minister's meaning was clear enough: the Fleet Train was the horse, and the fighting Fleet the cart. They must be kept in their proper order. As the size of the horse was fixed, it was pointless to plan an ambitious cart.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail . . . Never mistake activity for achievement . .

Drawing up plans such as these diagrams is the easy part. I did it thousands of times. Creating a successful organization with people who execute the plans at a level of Competitive Greatness—now, that's the challenge of leadership.