Planning Quotes

“Ultimately, under the veneer of data-driven assumptions, strategic planning can be arbitrary in our deeply uncertain world.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“An unplanned day invites both distraction and destruction.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“65. If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“My plan B is to make sure my Plan A works. ”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Planning and teamwork can bring you closer to perfection than working in isolation”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Goals are for winners - dreams are for losers.”
― Mark Taitz

“I'm rather ashamed of my plans; I make a new one every day.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Life is an ad hoc affair. It has to be improvised all the time because of the hard fact that everything we do changes what is. This is distressing to people who would like to see things beautifully planned out and settled once and for all. That cannot be.”
― Jane Jacobs, Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs

“Planning for all of us is a practical, everyday necessity. No responsible person can get along without trying to apply foresight. It is also enjoyable to mot of us Indeed, planning is so enjoyable that the chance to do it in a great big way is one of the seductions of great power: one reason people seek great power. But planning to gratify the impulse to plan, planning done for the sake planning itself is deadly stuff. If we are going to err in our planning--and we are, because what is perfect?--it is better to err on the side of being loose, minimal, a little too open to improvisation, rather than the reverse.”
― Jane Jacobs

“Don't let timidity or the fear of what people will say lead you out of God's plan and purpose for you.”
― Gabriel Ladokun

“Every business plan begins with a side of assumptions… Because the assumptions haven’t been proved to be true (they are assumptions, after all) and in fact are often erroneous, the goal of a startup’s early efforts should be to test them as quickly as possible”
― Ries Eric, The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets

“Management is a science to be strategically imbibed and an art to be executed. It involves planning, coordination, strategizing, and implementation. Thereby it involves a process to achieve a goal. It involves a process of optimum utilization of resources to achieve a goal.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin, Legal Counsel & Author - Fundamentals of Airlines and Airports Management

“If you have a destination in mind. Start taking minor steps everyday.Leaving too much distance to cover before the deadline will leave you grasping for breath and neither here nor there.”
― Shahemshah Hafeez

“This moment is part of forever.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“When you do a poor job keeping track of where things are planted and what their maturity times are, it can lead to a bit of a nightmare as you plant things on top of each other, never quite sure what’s a weed and what’s intentionally there. When performed properly, it’s an amazing feeling to harvest something then immediately know there’s a plant that you’ve chosen waiting to fill that freshly opened soil.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“Was this level of care completely necessary? Probably not. Did it fill an evening? Definitely.”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

“An unbreakable mask and cunning are the keys for executing a plan flawlessly.”
― Imania Margria, Eyes

“Definite optimism works when you build the future you envision. Definite pessimism works by building what can be copied without expecting anything new. Indefinite pessimism works because it’s self-fulfilling: if you’re a slacker with low expectations, they’ll probably be met. But indefinite optimism seems inherently unsustainable: how can the future get better if no one plans for it?”
― Peter Thiel with Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Nothing happens if there is no planning.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Have you made a practical plan for your dreams yet?”
― Robin S. Baker

“Be an evening general, content at manoeuvring the day’s skirmishes, and not a conscripted grunt griping about duty and suffering. At day’s end, plan tomorrow’s advances.”
― Stewart Stafford

“We are returning to the old subject; and this was to be a business talk. It is quite useless, I assure you, to tell me I might have done all sorts of things. I shall never do them now. But I may be able to help you in thinking out your plan. What is it?”
“You begin by telling me that it is useless for me to suggest anything, and then ask what I want to suggest. My plan requires your help in action, not only in thinking out.”
― E L Voynich

“If this goes right, we'll figure out something else for the future.”
― Emery Lee

“They say that Rome wasn't built in one day. And nothing is built in one day. Even if an action happens in one day, the planning took place in the mind days, months, or even years before.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“We make time for our friends. But in doing so, plan the time right so that you don't neglect your own needs.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Make the best experiences out of the minimum resources that are at your disposal.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“In order to do the things you have to do, you need to do the things you want to do in the process.”
― Ioannis Loukopoulos, Kaleidoscope

“Man tends to spend the present planning for the future, as he must even though it is not guaranteed.
And so it begs the question. What of today? Is there an answer to that?”
― Sahndra Fon Dufe

“Exploring can turn out much better than a planned itinerary.”
― Russell Roberts, Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

“But that would be unsurprising given our innate short-sightedness to consequences. Why deal with the discomfort now when the agony comes to a future you? That is their problem.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose