684 Quotes About Planning

A common mistake is to consider planning as only a mental process, an idea in our head that simply looks at the past and adjusts for the future. If your plan is not in writing, you do not have a plan at all. Instead, you have only a dream, a vision, or perhaps even a nightmare.

Planning is a continuous and real-time activity that must anticipate and adapt to counter emerging pitfalls in the pursuit of achieving intended objectives.

Man plans, and god laughs. Like the ant and the grasshopper.

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

When making a foolproof plan, one should always plan for the most likely eventuality that nothing will go as per plan.

A bad headache can destroy all plans for the day.

The demons of critical path analysis swarmed around his brain. There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.

You get what you focus on.

Planning for tomorrow requires today’s thought, and a few years of distance for that to happen.