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• Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

  Steve Blank

  Writing, Creative, Firsts

  "No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models". steveblank.com. April 08, 2010.

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  Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

  Babe Ruth

  Motivational, Inspiring, Running

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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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• Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Plans

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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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• Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

  Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria

  Water, Toes, Planning

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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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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Writing, Self

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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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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• Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Would Be, Needs, Strategy

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

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• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Work, Cutting

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 08, 2012

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• Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

  Steve Blank

  Tools, Use, Execution

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• Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan

  Steve Blank

  Writing, Essentials, Plans

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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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• I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

  Val Kilmer

  Lying, Lucky, Plans

  "Val Kilmer Returns: Taking on Twain, Career Regrets, Celebrity and an Untraditional Hollywood Life". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 27, 2012.

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

  John Lasseter

  Believe, Quality, Best Business

  "John Lasseter Returns to Hand Drawn Animation with The Princess and the Frog". Interview with B. Alan Orange, www.movieweb.com. March 13, 2010.

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• For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”

  David Pogue

  Years, Waiting, Microsoft

  "Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better". www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009.

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Business, Future

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• The biggest complaint from people wanting to start a business is, "I don't have capital." Banks aren't lending but if they were, it would give you a greater opportunity to screw things up. So it will help you be creative and spend less. If you have a proven business plan, share with friends and family.

  Cameron Johnson

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  "Serial Entrepreneur Cameron Johnson Shares Success Secrets". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 12, 2015.

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• We knew we loved making cookies and every time we did, we made people happy. That was our business plan.

  Debbi Fields

  People, Cookies, Made

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• Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Journey, Next Steps, Income

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