Quotes About Planning

Give up on the guesswork. Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance. It's OK to wing it. Just get on the plane and go. You can pick up a nicer shirt, shaving cream, and a toothbrush once you get there.

Start referring to your business plans as business guesses

Act like an actual business and you'll have a much better shot at succeeding.

Would you go into a relationship planning the breakup? Would you write the prenup on a first date? Would you meet with a divorce lawyer the morning of your wedding? That would be ridiculous, right?

The solution: Break the big thing into smaller things. The smaller it is, the easier it is to estimate. You're probably still going to get it wrong, but you'll be a lot less wrong than if you estimated a big project. If something takes twice as long as you expected, better to have it be a small project that's a couple weeks over rather than a long one that's a couple months over.

It doesn't matter how much you plan, you'll still get some stuff wrong anyway. Don't make things worse by overanalyzing and delaying before you even get going. Long projects zap morale. The longer it takes to develop, the less likely it is to launch. Make the call, make progress, and get something out now—while you've got the motivation and momentum to do so.

estimates that stretch weeks, months, and years into the future are fantasies.

The solution: Break the big thing into smaller things. The smaller it is, the easier it is to estimate. You're probably still going to get it wrong, but you'll be a lot less wrong than if you estimated a big project. If something takes twice as long as you expected, better to have it be a small project that's a couple weeks over rather than a long one that's a couple months over. Keep breaking your time frames down into

Have some general backup ideas in mind, but don't let the backup plan be carved in stone. That will prevent you from learning. The time to begin building formalized backup plans is during the tweaking, changing, and maneuvering that occurs while studying the results of the small bet. Backup plans become vital when a small bet that's turned out to be successful is about to be scaled in size.

Tupra había calculado que la misión me ocuparía unos meses a lo sumo, pero sabía por experiencia que todo se alarga y se enreda y se anuda, y resulta más trabajoso de como se lo pintan a uno; y que los planes de los hombres jamás salen lisos, sino rugosos siempre.

I have always found plans usless, but planning indispensible

You must thing of those six steps not as preparation for the beginning but as the beginning itself p10

He knew he would need his hands.

Focus not on the one hundred things that you will or may have to do at some future time but on the one thing that you can do now. This doesn't mean you should not do any planning. It may well be that planning is the one thing you can do now. But make sure you don't start to run "mental movies," project yourself into the future, and so lose the Now. Any action you take may not bear fruit immediately. Until it does — do not resist what is.

Any lesson from the past becomes relevant and is applied now. Any planning as well as working toward achieving a particular goal is done now.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.

Design is the basis for action.

I think I'll get cremated here myself,' said Patrick. 'No need to rush,' said Johnny. 'I was going to wait until I died.' 'Good thinking.

Never put off until the next million years what you can do during this million.

Be boring. Be consistent. Plan ahead. Let the facts rather than your emotions determine your response. Learn to keep your mind open and your mouth shut.

Era una delle sue massime questa, che, per riuscire a far del bene alla gente, la prima cosa, nella maggior parte de' casi, è di non metterli a parte del disegno.

Part of the pursuit of excellence involves eliminating as many surprises as possible because life is full of the unexpected.

When you run any organisation, you have to look as far down the road as you can.