Planning and Strategy

The bridge between vision and reality, executed with flexibility

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Whatever you want to achieve you can achieve faster if you get hyper-specific.

20% of the game is strategy. 80% of the game is not quitting.

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action becomes reality.

Don't tell anyone your plans, instead show them your results.

No one ever wrote a plan to be fat, lazy or stupid. That's what happens when you don't have a plan.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

To be prepared is half of the victory.

You need to be stubborn on your vision, but very flexible on the details.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Start with a vision. Then look for actionable steps.

Plans are only a starting point. Choose a plan with options. A plan is only useful if it can survive reality.

The most important part of every plan is to plan on the plan not going according to plan.

A strategy has a single, well defined focus. A strategy lays out a path to be followed.

Strategy requires thought; tactics require observation.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Measure twice, cut once. Plan thoroughly, execute decisively.

Failing to plan is planning to fail, but overplanning is planning not to start.

Your plan should be a compass, not a railroad track - providing direction while allowing for detours.

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

Plan in decades, think in years, work in months, live in days.

A flexible plan is like water - it finds its way around obstacles while still moving toward its destination.