Planning Quotes

"In a startup, you are always planning for the next milestone. If you lose sight of that, you lose the company."

"How much of this planning model do you really need..? [A]s much as you need to get the project off your mind. Ch. 3"

"Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management. p. 761"

"The practice is what we do regardless of how we feel."

"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."

"We do not directly go about the execution of the purpose that thrills us, but shut our doors behind us, and ramble with prepared minds, as if the half were already done. Our resolution is taking root or hold on the earth then, as seeds first send a shoot downward, which is fed by their own albumen, ere they send one upwards to the light. Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 61"

"Success comes from the freedom to fail."

"I could be counted upon to perform the mission they had assigned me, or, if that was unworkable, to improvise and turn my men's exertions upon a secondary undertaking as good as or better than the first. Richmond Chapman, p. 175, the first criteria for an able commander"

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

"Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune. p. 73"

"To keep the energy of Day 1, you have to experiment patiently and accept failures."

"Being rational is a moral duty. You should never be stupider than you have to be."

"The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision. The plan makes it visible."

"Build a plan that allows for human error."

"Optimism, pessimism, f*** that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work."

"The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know."

"We want to build a world where every person can have a voice."

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

"Inventing is not just about the idea, it's about the planning to make it real."

"I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out."

"Planning is the process of thinking through the future so you are not surprised by it."

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan next month."

"The goal is to be useful, to do things that are a net good for the rest of humanity."

"A plan is only useful if it allows for the unexpected."

"Our plan is to continue investing heavily in the future of the metaverse."

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

"Our planning process is designed to find the truth, not to reach a consensus."

"The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward. If you want a specific outcome, you must plan the incentives correctly."

"Strategy is about making choices. If you try to be everything to everyone, you end up being nothing to anyone."

"The strategy is the 'why,' the tactics are the 'how.'"

"People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work."

"The problem with planning is that it creates a false sense of security."

"I believe that over time, people will be able to do almost anything they can imagine in the metaverse."