Plan Quotes

Small deeds done are better then great deeds planned.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Whatever you want to do now, you have to do something else first.

No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks.

A sound battle plan provides flexibility in both space and time to meet the constantly changing factors of the battle problem in such a way as to achieve the final goal of the commander. Rigidity inevitably defeats itself, and the analysts who point to a changed detail as evidence of a plan’s weakness are completely […]

A good plan executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

In my course I have known and, according to my measure, have cooperated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.