Explore the wonderful quotes under this tag
It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.
Sep 10, 2025
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
Few great men would have got past personnel.
Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
We always plan too much and always think too little.
Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.
Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer.
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.
Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
The harder I work the more I live.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do