Robert Ballard Quotes

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

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

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

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

Vision without execution is delusion.

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

Plan your work and work your plan.

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

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

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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

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