Christian Louboutin Quotes

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is important, however, is to not be so far off the mark that visions of the future run counter to the very nature of war and render American forces unable to adapt to unforeseen challenges.

Many who know me or have worked for me are aware of my penchant for strategic planning. I consider it a critical component of the success of any organization and believe in the value of planning for a company's needs over multiple time horizons, as well as reviews against that plan at regular intervals.

Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.