Simon Sinek Quotes

There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

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.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Always have a backup plan.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything.

No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.

Every competition is different... You can't plan for everything that happens.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.