Alan Lakein Quotes

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

It is better to anticipate than to react.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

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.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

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

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

Hope is not a strategy.

If you have a dream: Number one, make a plan. And then execute that plan. And there will be failures along that line. Don't let that discourage you. Because failure is part of the process ... make the necessary adjustments and you can be successful at whatever you do.

A goal without a plan is a wish.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

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

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.