Quotes About Planning

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

That's just to start?' 'Yeah.' 'Giu. So what happens after that?' 'Whatever needs to happen. That's the whole point of being strategic.

They know what we're planning, and we know what they're planning. But they don't know we know.

Look how you figured that out together. You made a plan, you listened to each other, you made a diagram … I don't think you would have figured it out without doing that.

Maybe this is where his humanity lies, in the traces of growing up with a sense of unfathomable insecurity: the need to plan, to make his world predictable.

But in the fourth century, as in any other, 'no plan survives first contact with the enemy'.

Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.

This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”

During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.

When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,

Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”

Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.

So he took his men, divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose up against them and attacked them.

So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.

Now the king of Aram was at war against Israel. After consulting with his servants, he said, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”

Then David conferred with all his leaders, the commanders of hundreds and of thousands.