B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile - they're the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They're also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

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.

I grew up military but have met very few women that have a mission plan for when things don't work out. I attack everything like that.

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.

You need to plan your bowling. Whenever things are not working for you - like, if you don't get swing - then you have to be ready with a backup plan and try something else.

You need to be ready for all situations.

Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can't go across it.

Don't be too close-minded, and don't think there's only one way to get to where you want to be. There are a thousand ways to get there, and if one way doesn't work, try the other.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

If Plan A isn't working, I have Plan B, Plan C, and even Plan D.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.

After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.

It's vital to learn how to make the best of things.