Chuck Knox Quotes

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

It is better to anticipate than to react.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.

The challenge of our times is to leave nothing to chance.

Any plan is better than no plan.

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

Sport doesn't work on knee-jerk reactions.

I like to think that I'm extremely method with my tactics on getting work.

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.

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

People with military experience seem to do very well in these situations. They've been taught that they can control their destiny, which is half the battle. They also have some experience in getting out of bad situations even if just through training. They know they have to make a plan and follow it and execute it.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

Athena always, always has a plan.

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

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

This idea of having back-up plans is ingrained into us to make us believe that that's the smart thing to do.

Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.

People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.

Always, Always have a plan

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