Carl Henry Eckart Quotes

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

What he's really talking about - and I'm speaking for Mike Flynn, not Donald Trump - is that he's saying, essentially, we have to have options. We have to have a lot of options. And, frankly, we do. We do have a lot of options.

It's always good to have different plans.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying to bring out is that one does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.

Preserve the President's options. He may need them.

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I see the opportunity and we're going right.'

Always have a backup plan.

I always say don't make plans, make options.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what's going to happen, but it's also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you're not going to get it right at the very beginning.

This is something that baffles me about managers: if you know the formation that you will revert to if you are in trouble, why not start with it?

I do believe it is important to be future-ready with a portfolio to be able to deal with however the market evolves. This is better than just forecasting accurately but in having the weapons ready to deal with the uncertainties.

You have to be adaptable. I don't think you can go into a game with any fixed plan.

Never expect anything, but plan for everything.