Business Planning Quotes - Page 2

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  "Steve Jobs, the Journey Is the Reward". Book by Jeffrey S. Young, 1988.

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• 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.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Depression, Fun, Business

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  "Weekly World News" Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 33, April 25, 2005.

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

  Howard Ruff

  Inspirational, Monday, Time

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• 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.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Business, War

  "The Art of War". Chapter I: Detail Assessment and Planning. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

  Bill Rancic

  Would Be, Motivational Business, Workforce

  Bill Rancic (2009). “You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice”, p.16, Zondervan

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• We always plan too much and always think too little.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Business, Thinking, Littles

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.466, Routledge

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• Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Focus, Demand

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• 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.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Gains, Would Be, Needs

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.

  Steve Case

  Inspiration

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• Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

  Jason Fried

  Long, Planning, Fantasy

  David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried (2010). “ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever”, p.19, Random House

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• Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

  Daniel Meyer

  Simple, People, Planning

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