T. Boone Pickens Quotes

A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.

Always, Always have a plan

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.