Jamais Cascio Quotes

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

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

Hope is not a strategy.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

Without training you will not grow wings.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.

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.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

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

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.

Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.

Have a good work ethic. You've got to practice, practice, practice. I'm not telling you what to practice - that's up to you.

I was not born a cricketer to start with, so I had to really work hard; I had to really train hard. It took lots of practice and lots of matches to get there.

As a player I think you naturally think long term and think what is the schedule in the next year or so.

There is a lot of room for improvement for everybody, no matter who you are, so that is all I did, really: practice.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.