Aaron Levie Quotes

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

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

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

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

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

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

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

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

I know what to do and I go and execute.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.

We can't continue to always base our strategy on the fact that the other guy is going to mess up all the time.

Hope is not a strategy.

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

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 long-term, not short-term.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.