Marc Andreessen on Planning Quotes

"Strategic planning is often just an excuse for not making hard decisions today."

"The best planning is simply staying alive long enough to get lucky."

"The most successful people I know don't have a 10-year plan; they have a 10-minute plan."

"Don’t plan your career, because you have no idea what’s going to happen."

"Don't spend too much time planning the perfect product; just get it into the hands of users."

"I stopped using a calendar because it was a way of planning my life for other people’s priorities."

"The world is a very fluid place and the opportunity to plan is often an illusion."

"Planning is the substitute for vision when you don't have one."

"The danger of a long-term plan is that it blinds you to new opportunities."

"The secret to planning is to be rigorous about the present and flexible about the future."

"Instead of planning, focus on 'opportunity capture' as new doors open."

"Your plan should be to become the best in the world at what you do."

"Planning is what you do when you don't know what else to do."

"In tech, the only constant is change, so your plan must be change."

"A great plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

"Planning is useful for coordination, but it's often deadly for creativity."

"The goal of planning should be to reduce risk, not to predict the future."

"A plan is a way to align a team, but the team must be ready to pivot."

"You can't plan innovation. You can only create the conditions for it to happen."

"A plan is just a hypothesis that you are testing against reality."

"Don't let your plan become a straitjacket."

"The most effective planning happens in real-time."

"The best way to plan for a career in a world of rapid change is to focus on skills, not job titles."

"The plan is to iterate as fast as possible until you find something that works."

"In a world of extreme uncertainty, the most important thing is to be able to change your mind and your plan."

"Productivity is not about doing more things; it's about doing the right things."

"Product-market fit is the only plan that matters for a startup."

"Career planning is like trying to navigate a maze that is constantly shifting."

"Planning for the long term in tech is like trying to predict the weather ten years from now."

"The only plan that survives contact with the market is the one that is constantly evolving."

"A business plan is a work of fiction until you have customers paying you money."

"You don't plan a revolution; you just start one."

"The most important part of any plan is the part where you realize the plan is wrong."