John McCain Quotes

Hope is not a strategy.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

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

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

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

The 6 Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance

… problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

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

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

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.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

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

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

We must do our best to shape the future. But we must not wish away the dangers of the present.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done.'

When the President is a moralist, he needs a process that will make up for the natural shortcomings of such a style—an inattention to second-step thinking, an allergy to detail, a tendency not to see the point of having dissenters, a habit of allowing certainty to override considerations of risk. It is the National Security Advisor’s responsibility to fill a President’s strategic gaps, not to exacerbate them.

Pursue your dreams but have a backup plan.

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

My parents prepared me for the worst, hoped for the best.